Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Benedict Henry Merkelbach
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
O.P. · Thomist (Dominican) · 1871–1942
On this site: Summa Theologiae Moralis; Pastoral Questions
His Moral System
Any of the three systems; the stricter the more prudent
- “it will be more conformable to reason and more prudent to follow Probabiliorism rather than Equiprobabilism, and Equiprobabilism rather than Probabilism” — Merkelbach, II, n. 100
Life
Born 6 January 1871, Tongres (Tongeren), Belgium; died 25 July 1942, Louvain. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Studied at the diocesan seminary of Liège; ordained 1894; licentiate in theology of Louvain, 1898. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Seven years a curate at Hasselt; then taught dogmatic theology at Liège. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Entered the Dominicans in 1917; doctor of theology, 1918; taught moral and pastoral theology at the Dominican studium of Louvain. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Called to the Angelicum in Rome in 1929 for seven years; returned to Louvain in 1936 in failing health. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Summa theologiae moralis (3 vols., 1931–1940); Mariologia (1939). [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
Sources: New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., 2003), as published on Encyclopedia.com. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).