Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Thomas Slater
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
S.J. · Jesuit · 1855–1928
On this site: A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries; Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I; Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume II; A Short History of Moral Theology; Back to Morality; The Foundation of True Morality; On the Morals of To-Day; Questions of Moral Theology; Religion and Human Interests
In the Index: Slater
His Moral System
Probabilism
- “To us it seems that probabilism is the true system” — Slater, Chapter IV. The Probable Conscience
Life
Born 1855, near Blackburn, Lancashire; died 1928. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 161; Library of Congress authority record (Wayback Machine copy): Slater, Thomas, 1855-1928]
- Educated at Mount St. Mary's, Chesterfield, Stonyhurst, London University and the Gregorian; entered the Society of Jesus 1874; ordained 1888. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 161]
- Professor of moral theology and canon law at St. Beuno's College, North Wales, 1892–1911; then at St. Francis Xavier's, Liverpool. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 161]
- De justitia et jure (1898); Principia theologiae moralis (1902); A Manual of Moral Theology (2 vols., 1908), written because, as his preface says, there was then 'no complete manual of moral theology in English'; Cases of Conscience (1911); Questions of Moral Theology (1915). [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 161; Library of Congress authority record (Wayback Machine copy): Slater, Thomas, 1855-1928; his preface to the first edition]
- Wrote twenty-three articles for the Catholic Encyclopedia, among them Justice, Lying, Mental Reservation, Restitution and Synderesis. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 161]
Sources: The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers (New York, 1917), lives of the contributors (archive.org cu31924063262053); library catalogue authority records (Catholic Research Resources Alliance, Princeton); the title page or front matter of the work as hosted on this site. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
What Our Authors Say of Him
- “works succinct and clear” — 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.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| “To us it seems that probabilism is the true system”In his own words (Probabilism) | Slater, Chapter IV. The Probable Conscience |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).