Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Peraldus, Guil.
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Dominican · ?–1250
In the Index: Peraldus
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Peraldus, Guil., O.P., French (d. ca. 1250), wrote the distinguished work Summa de vitiis et virtutibus, very often edited, for example Paris 1519, 2 volumes in 8vo.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
Each read in its full passage; the words quoted are the author's own. Where several authors say the same thing, one is quoted and the others follow “in nearly the same words”; point at a name to see his words.
| “We have a moral exposition separated from dogma in William Peraldus (before 1270), in his Summa on Vices and Virtues”Vermeersch names his Summa as a moral exposition apart from dogma | Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 18 |
| “this last is noted in the decree of Gratian and is handed down by St. Bernard, Alexander of Hales, St. Bonaventure, William Peraldus, Paludanus”Merkelbach names him among those who hand down that a religious must do what the superior commands when it is not certainly illicit | Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
| “The first writer who treated Moral Theology as a separate science probably was William Perault, O.P. (+ before 1270)”Koch-Preuss: probably the first to treat moral theology as a separate science | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).