Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Scavini, Petrus
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
1790–1869
In the Index: Scavini, P.
Life
Born 22 October 1791, Intra (Lake Maggiore); died 17 November 1869, Novara. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Taught in the seminary of Novara and was a canon of its cathedral. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- His Theologia moralis universa ad mentem S. Alphonsi (4 vols., Novara, 1841) was very widely used: sixteen editions, the last at Milan in 1901 (so the NCE; Prümmer gives Novara 1847 and a 16th edition at Milan in 1902). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]
- Disputed with his friend Antonio Rosmini over the reflex principle 'a doubtful law does not bind' (lex dubia non obligat), others taking part; his reading of St. Alphonsus and his account of probabilism were sharply criticized and as warmly defended. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Further reading named by the NCE: Hurter, Nomenclator literarius, vol. 5.2, cols. 1795–1796; G. Cavigioli, Il teologo Mons. Pietro Scavini (Pallanza, 1920). [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Prümmer gives his birth as 1790; the NCE, 22 October 1791. [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]
Sources: New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., 2003), as published on Encyclopedia.com; Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site). Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Scavini, Petrus, Italian (1790-1869), wrote the distinguished and very widespread work entitled Theologia moralis universa ad mentem S. Alphonsi, 4 tomes in 8vo, Novara 1847; at Milan 1902 there appeared the 16th edition.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
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.
| Equiprobabilist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by 3 of our authors | Noldin, Summa I, n. 243; Marc, Institutiones I, n. 86; Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 341 |
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.
| “P. Scavini (+ 1869)”Koch-Preuss name him among recent authors who use the Scholastic method for the practical needs of the confessor | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
Works Our Authors Used
- Petrus Scavini - Theologia moralis universa, ad mentem S. Alphonsi de Ligorio; 4 vols., 12th edition. (Milan, 1874). — Marc's list
- J. A. Del Vecchio, Canon of Novara. - Moral Theology, by author Petrus Scavini, reduced into a compendium; 2 vols. (Milan, 1880). — Marc's list
- Scavini, Theologia Moralis universa, enlarged and illustrated with notes, appendices, and many other things for present-day practice by J. A. Del Vecchio, 15th ed., Milan, 1896. — Tanquerey's list
- Scavini, Petrus, Theologia moralis universa, 15th ed., Milan, 1896. — Tanquerey's list
Named in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
The Encyclopedia gives him no article of his own; these are the places where its articles speak of him. Public domain; transcription from Wikisource.
- “Two works may here find mention which enjoyed a wider circulation than any other book on moral theology and which are frequently used even today: the Scavini's "Theologia moralis universa", and the shorter "Compendium theologiæ moralis" by Jean-Pierre Gury, together with the numerous revisions which appeared in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and North America.” — “Moral Theology”, vol. 14, by Augustinus Lehmkuhl