Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Voit Edmundus, German
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Jesuit
In the Index: Voit
Life
Born 27 September 1707, Neustadt; died 29 October 1780. [Hurter, vol. V, part 1, col. 234-235]
- Jesuit; interpreter of Scripture and then professor of moral theology at Würzburg; provincial. [Hurter, vol. V, part 1, col. 234-235]
- His Theologia moralis ex solidis probatorum auctorum principiis (Würzburg, 1750) was reprinted six times there and elsewhere (Bassano, Rome, Paris), still in 1860. [Hurter, vol. V, part 1, col. 234-235]
- Hurter, after Gury: a moderate probabilist, commended for his doctrine and above all his practical resolutions; 'a clearer exposition, however, and a more orderly method are wanted in the work'. [Hurter, vol. V, part 1, col. 234-235]
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
- [**: weighty, probabilist, the 1884 editor's sign] “Voit Edmundus, German, S.J., Practical Moral Theology, died toward the end of the 18th century.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXXII, 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 | |
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| “Voit Edmundus, German, S.J., Practical Moral Theology, died toward the end of the 18th century.”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. XXXII |
| “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 |
| “Gury calls him "a moderate probabilist, commended for his learning and especially for his practical solutions."”Moderate probabilist. Koch-Preuss report Gury's praise of him as a moderate probabilist and Hurter's reservation | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
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| “Voit, S.J. (1780)”Vermeersch names him among the distinguished theologians of the age before St. Alphonsus, an age he calls morbid | 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 |
| “whose moral theology is very practical” | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 51 |
Works Our Authors Used
- Edmundus Voit, S.J. - Theologia moralis. (Ancona, 1841). — Marc's list
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).