Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters

De Ruvere

Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.

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Jesuit

Added because Merkelbach classifies him among the moral systems (Summa II, excursus).

His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It

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Our authors disagree. Probabilist: Tanquerey. Equiprobabilist: Merkelbach.

Tanquerey (n. 405) holds that equiprobabilism "does not differ substantially from moderate probabilism", and Marc (n. 86) that the moderate probabilists "agree in substantial matters with the equiprobabilists".

Probabilist
Counted among them by one of our authorsTanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 396
Equiprobabilist
Counted among them by one of our authorsMerkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems

No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).