Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Reuter, Ioan.
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Jesuit · 1680–1762
In the Index: Reuter
Dates differ: Prümmer 1680–1762; Haringer ?–1762.
Life
Born 1680, Luxembourg; died 1762. [Hurter, vol. IV, col. 1636]
- Jesuit; professor of moral theology at the University of Trier. [Hurter, vol. IV, col. 1636]
- Hurter: in moral matters a truly weighty author, moderate, notable for learning, solidity and order. [Hurter, vol. IV, col. 1636]
- Wrote a Theologia moralis quadripartita (Cologne, 1750, 4 vols.; Bologna, 1755) and a Neoconfessarius practice instructus. [Hurter, vol. IV, col. 1636]
Sources: H. Hurter, S.J., Nomenclator literarius theologiae catholicae, 3rd ed. (Innsbruck, 1903-1913), read on archive.org. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Reuter, Ioan., S.J., German (1680-1762), wrote Theologia moralis, reprinted several times, 4 volumes in 8vo. More known and useful is his work entitled Neoconfessarius, edited again even in our age at Paris, Regensburg, and Freiburg im Breisgau.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [**: weighty, probabilist, the 1884 editor's sign] “Reuter Ioannes, German, S.J., distinguished by solidity of doctrine, neatness, and order of matters. Moral Theology, died 1762.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXVII, sign read on the page)
This writer is one the 1884 editor added to Haringer's list (printed in italics); the sign is the editor's, not Haringer's report of St. Alphonsus.
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 | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 396 |
| “Reuter Ioannes, German, S.J., distinguished by solidity of doctrine, neatness, and order of matters. Moral Theology, died 1762.”The 1884 editor of Gury-Ballerini, who added this writer to Haringer's list, marks him ** (weighty and probabilist) | The 1884 editor (Gury-Ballerini), Index of writers, p. XXVII |
| “These agree in substantial matters with the equiprobabilists, and can be called moderate probabilists. Such are Suarez, Vasquez, Lugo, Lessius, Laymann, Sylvius, Palaus, Viva, Abelly, Reuter, Voit, etc.”Moderate probabilist. Marc calls him a moderate probabilist, agreeing in substance with the equiprobabilists, and will not attack him | Marc, Institutiones I, n. 86 |
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.
| “Reuter, S.J. (1762)”Vermeersch names him among the distinguished theologians of the age before St. Alphonsus, an age he calls morbid | Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 20 |
| “and J. Reuter, S.J. (1769)”Vermeersch names him among the writers on pastoral theology | Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 20 |
| “For those heretics, deceitfully simulating great piety and a singular fervor for protecting moral science, brought it about that in France, Italy, and other provinces they drew many learned men to their side: among whom were also Peter Collet (the celebrated continuator of Honore Tournely), Louis Habert, and Natalis Alexander, who, although they rejected other errors of the Jansenists, nevertheless accommodated themselves in many things to their immoderate rigor. Indeed there were not lacking those who defended more benign opinions, such as Louis Abelly, Eusebius Amort, Castropalaus, Gobat, Roncaglia, Cardenas, Viva, Lacroix, Sporer, Reiffenstuel, Reuter, Voit, Holzmann, Elbel, Mazzotta, etc., without however being able wholly to repress the swelling rigor of doctrine.”Marc names him among those who defended more benign opinions against the rigor of the Jansenist age | Marc, Institutiones I, n. 6 |
| “a weighty and wise author” | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 51 |
| “His Neo-Confessarius (re-edited by A. Lehmkuhl, S.J., in 1905) is still in use”Koch-Preuss on his works | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
Works Our Authors Used
- Reuter, S.J., Neoconfessarius practice instructus, Regensburg, 1870. — Tanquerey's list
- Reuter, Joannes, S.J., Theologia moralis quadripartita, Cologne, 1750. — Tanquerey's list
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).