Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Waffelaert, G. J.
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Life
Born 27 August 1847, Rollegem; died 18 December 1931, Bruges. [Wikipedia]
- Ordained at Bruges 1870; doctor of theology of Louvain with a thesis De dubio solvendo in re morali; professor of moral theology at the major seminary of Bruges; vicar general (1890); Bishop of Bruges from 1895. [Wikipedia]
- Wrote Tractatus theologici de virtutibus cardinalibus (Bruges, 1885-1889, 3 vols.), Annotationes in tractatum de virtutibus theologicis (1900) and La coopération au mal (2nd ed., 1892) (Prümmer; Marc's list). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors; Tanquerey's list]
Sources: Wikipedia; Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site); the lists of works used in our authors' prefaces (Marc, Tanquerey), 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
- “Waffelaert, G. J., Belgian, bishop of Bruges, published several moral works full of solid doctrine and great learning, for example Tractatus theologici de virtutibus cardinalibus, 3 volumes in 8vo, Bruges 1885-1889; Annotationes in tractatum de virtutibus theologicis, in 8vo, there, 1900; De la science sociale, in 8vo, there, 1894; Sur la malice du mensonge..., in 8vo, there, 1884; Sur l'obligation en conscience des lois civiles, in 8vo, Tournai 1884.” — 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 | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Noldin, Summa I, n. 233 |
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.
| “those on the cardinal virtues written by the illustrious Bishop of Bruges, Waffelaert”Vermeersch names his treatises on the cardinal virtues among the notable special works | Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 21 |
| “whom Most Illustrious D. Waffelaert seems to have preceded”Vermeersch: the theologians and canonists who distinguish true and fictitious moral persons follow his lead; Vermeersch reverently departs from him | Vermeersch, Quaestiones de iustitia, n. 532 |
Works Our Authors Used
- Waffelaert, Msgr., La cooperation au mal, 2nd ed., Bruges, 1892. — Tanquerey's list
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).