Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Sinnigh, Ioan.
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
?–1666
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Sinnigh, Ioan., Irish (d. 1666). He is an excessively rigid author, favors Jansenism, and seems to have defended the proposition afterward condemned by Alexander VIII: "It is not lawful to follow an opinion, even the most probable among the probable." For the list of his works, some of which are proscribed in the Index, see Hurter, Nomenclator IV, 100 sq.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [+*: rigid] “Sinnichius Ioan., Irish, doctor of Louvain, defender of Jansenius, who did not hesitate to assert: "Jansenius cannot be condemned except with Pelagius laughing and Augustine weeping." The same is the author of the condemned proposition which said that it is not licit, among probable opinions, to follow the most probable; died 1666.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXIX, sign read on the page)
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
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Our authors disagree. Probabiliorist: Gury-Ballerini. Tutiorist (rigorist): Noldin, Marc, Tanquerey, Bucceroni, Merkelbach, Prümmer. Against probabilism: Concina.
| Probabiliorist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Gury-Ballerini, Compendium I, n. 66, note |
| Tutiorist (rigorist) | |
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Marc, Institutiones I, n. 86 |
| “This doctrine, rigoristic beyond measure, was defended by Sinnichius (d. 1666), a doctor of Louvain, and the Jansenists maintain it”Tutiorist (rigorist). Noldin: he defended absolute tutiorism | Noldin, Summa I, n. 229 |
| “Absolute tutiorism was advocated by Sinnichius, doctor of Louvain (+ 1666), and the Jansenists”Tutiorist (rigorist). Tanquerey: he and the Jansenists advocated absolute tutiorism (condemned by Alexander VIII in 1690) | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 399 |
| “Proof of the 1st part from proposition 3 condemned by Alexander VIII in 1690: "It is not licit to follow an opinion even the most probable among probables"; the author of this proposition was John Sinnich (+ Oct. 8, 1666), a Louvain doctor and defender of Cornelius Jansen, whom other Jansenists followed. Hence it is clear that the rigid tutiorism of the Jansenists had already been reproved by the Church.”Tutiorist (rigorist). Bucceroni: the author of the tutiorist proposition condemned by Alexander VIII (1690) | Bucceroni, Institutiones, n. 118 |
| “From this tutiorism was born. The safer practice which had mostly flourished in the middle age was now erected into a general system. Sinnich, a Louvain professor, in the book Saul Ex Rex is said to have defended this opinion: "it is not licit to follow an opinion even the most probable among the probable," which was condemned by Alexander VIII (in the year 1690).”Tutiorist (rigorist). Merkelbach: in Saul Ex Rex he is said to have defended the tutiorist proposition condemned by Alexander VIII in 1690 | Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
| “He is an excessively rigid author, favors Jansenism”Tutiorist (rigorist). Prümmer: excessively rigid, favoring Jansenism | Prümmer, Catalogue of authors |
| Against probabilism | |
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Concina, Compendium II, diss. II, ch. IX, n. XVIII |
| Rigid in his opinions | |
| “Sinnichius Ioan., Irish, doctor of Louvain, defender of Jansenius, who did not hesitate to assert: "Jansenius cannot be condemned except with Pelagius laughing and Augustine weeping." The same is the author of the condemned proposition which said that it is not licit, among probable opinions, to follow the most probable; died 1666.”Haringer marks him +*, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (rigid) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XXIX |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
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| “Rigorism or rigid Tutiorism teaches that the safer part must always be chosen, although the opinion favoring liberty is most probable. Thus Ioan. Sinnichius, a Louvain doctor (+ 1666), in his book Saul exrex lib. 1, c. 95, n. 357, and the Jansenists. - This system was condemned by Alexander VIII, who on 7 Dec. 1690 proscribed the proposition which Sinnichius seems to defend in the cited place: "It is not licit to follow an opinion, even the most probable among the probable." - And deservedly!”Prümmer: rigorism or rigid tutiorism, condemned by Alexander VIII | Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 338 |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).