Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Moya, Matth. de
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Jesuit · 1610–1684
In the Index: Moya, Mateo de; Moya, M. de
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Moya, Matth. de, S.J., Spanish (1610-1684), is not a commendable author. Under the fictitious name Amadeus Guimenius he wrote Opusculum singularia universae fere theologiae moralis complectens adversus quorumdam expostulationes, Lyons 1664. This book was not only placed on the Index, but was also proscribed by a Brief of Innocent XI on 16 September 1680. Another work of Moya, Quaestiones selectae in praecipuis theologiae mor. tractatibus, in folio, Madrid 1670, was likewise placed on the Index.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- “Moya Matthaeus, Spanish, S.J. His moral questions, according to Rassler, as too benign, were prohibited at Rome and handed over to fire; but afterward, corrected, they appeared at Cologne with the approbation of superiors (Selected Moral Questions), died after 1672.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXIV, sign read on the page)
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
Every report quoted in the author's own words and linked to its place; point at a name to see his words. Haringer's signs give St. Alphonsus's judgment as Haringer found it in St. Alphonsus's works (his notice, Gury-Ballerini, 1884, p. XI); a sign on a writer the 1884 editor added to the list is the editor's own, and is said to be his.
| Probabilist | |
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| “And when Matthaeus Moya, under the pseudonym "Amadeus Guimenius," had written a little work for defending the opinions of the Probabilists”Prümmer: his little work defending the probabilists, written as Amadeus Guimenius, was condemned again by Innocent XI | Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 345 |
| Charged with laxity | |
| Counted among them by 5 of our authors | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, the moral systems; Noldin, Summa I, n. 232s; Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 350; Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 398; Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
| “Although in other matters he is found not rarely too benign, nevertheless concerning sins of lust he sometimes defends rather rigid opinions. - Besides the authors cited, Ioannes Sanchez (+ 1624), Stephanus Bauny (+ 1649), Matthaeus Moya (+ 1684), whose work Quaestiones selectae was placed on the Index on 26 Feb. 1704, favored Laxism.”Prümmer: he favored laxism | Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 343 |
| “Chapter II — A census of propositions which seem lax, culled from the Casuists … II. "So long as an Infidel holds himself persuaded that his Sect is probable, although the contrary be more probable, he would indeed be bound, when placed in the article of death, to embrace the true faith, which he judges more probable — as being placed in that article in which his final salvation is at stake, and hence bound to embrace the part which he judges safer and more probable; but outside that article he is not bound, because he may still prudently think that he can persevere in his Sect, and time remains for examining the matter better.”Concina's censuses of lax opinions list 4 of his opinions and names him in 2 more as teaching or approving one (the first is quoted; every one is under 'Where Our Authors Discuss Him') | Concina, Compendium I, bk. III, diss. I, ch. II, n. II |
| Too benign in his opinions | |
| “His moral questions, according to Rassler, as too benign, were prohibited at Rome and handed over to fire”Haringer, after Rassler: his moral questions were burnt at Rome as too benign, and appeared corrected afterward | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XXIV |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
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| “Chapter II — The lax opinions of several Casuists … XXIII. Lessius, cited in Matthew de Moya, Vol. I, Select Questions, tract 6, Miscellany, disputation 4, question 3: “When a servant asks nothing by way of wage — nay, expressly rejects in his heart every intention of asking — and serves in the hope that some office or benefice will be procured for him by his master: when the master has procured it for him, even if he has obtained nothing, he cannot ask for anything, nor compensate himself.”Concina names him in the same number as teaching or approving the lax opinion (on justice, restitution, occult compensation and usury) | Concina, Compendium II, bk. IX, diss. I, ch. II, n. XXIII |
| “Chapter II — The lax propositions of the casuists … II. Fr. Matthew de Moya in his Select Questions, Vol. I, tract 4, Miscellany, question 2, § 3, nos. 13 and 14: “There is no reason why, on account of fear, at least of death, it should not be lawful to use simulation of this kind in all the sacraments.”Concina lists among the lax opinions of the casuists (on the sacraments: baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist and the Mass) | Concina, Compendium II, bk. X, diss. I, ch. II, n. II |
| “Chapter II — The lax propositions of the casuists … XIV. Fr. Matthew de Moya in his Select Questions, Vol. I, tract 4, Miscellany, On the Sacraments, question 11, no. 7: “Whence is easily dissolved the foundation of those asserting that it is a venial sin, on the ground that it is a certain spiritual prodigality to deprive oneself of so great a fruit of this sacrament (of confirmation) when a man can conveniently receive it.”Concina lists among the lax opinions of the casuists (on the sacraments: baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist and the Mass) | Concina, Compendium II, bk. X, diss. I, ch. II, n. XIV |
| “Chapter II — The lax propositions of the casuists … XV. The same in the same place, no. 11: “From the fact that no precept of confirmation is given, speaking of itself, they infer that its omission is not venial. … Therefore from the fact that no precept is given forbidding the reception of orders without confirmation preceding, it is similarly inferred that it is not venial to receive them before confirmation.””Concina lists among the lax opinions of the casuists (on the sacraments: baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist and the Mass) | Concina, Compendium II, bk. X, diss. I, ch. II, n. XV |
| “Chapter IV — Lax, or improbable, propositions are reviewed, which not a few Casuists teach … X. "Titius, who induces a witness to swear falsely, which the witness thinks is true, does not sin, even though Titius himself knows it to be false." Pedro Hurtado, Diana, Tancredo, in Tamburini, who considers this opinion probable, indeed safe in practice.”Concina names him in the same number as teaching or approving the lax opinion (on the oath) | Concina, Theologia V, diss. I, ch. IV, n. X |
| “Fr. Étienne de Camps published a book entitled Quaestio Facti, in which he frees the Society from the note of defending Probabilism as its own. The same was done by Fabri, Daniel, Moya, Gonzalez, Camargo.”Concina: he denied that probabilism is the Society’s own doctrine | Concina, Compendium II, diss. II, ch. IX, n. X |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).