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Moral Theology (also known as the Theologia Moralis) is a nine-volume work concerning Catholic moral theology written between 1748 and 1785 by Alphonsus Liguori, a Catholic theologian and Doctor of the Church.
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
He was the first to give a methodical exposition of the views of Liguori regarding what the latter called "equiprobabilism". He also applied his knowledge of American law to the subject. Later, at the suggestion of Tobias Mullen , Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania , he published a commentary on episcopal faculties (intended for the United States), a ...
Examples of Catholic moral theologians include St. Alphonsus Liguori (author of Theologia Moralis), Bartolomé Medina (originator of Probabilism), Dominic Prümmer (Compensationism), Bernhard Häring (Dialogical Ethics), Servais Pinckaers (Nouvelle théologie), Germain Grisez and John Finnis (New Natural Law).
North Europe: 8 provinces, 2 vice-provinces, 2 regions and 1 mission, North American Redemptorists are divided into five provinces (Baltimore, Denver, Edmonton-Toronto, Yorkton for the Ukrainian Greek Catholics , and Mexico) and two vice-provinces (Richmond and the Extra-Patriam, for the Vietnamese Catholics ). [ 12 ]
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Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787) Febronius (Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim) (1701–1790) Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1714–1795) Patrick Benedict Zimmer (1752–1820) Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) Georg Hermes (1775–1831) Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854) Anton Günther(1783–1863)
The book was written in part as a defense of Marian devotion at a time when it had come under criticism. The book combines numerous citations in favor of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church with Saint Alphonsus' own personal views on Marian veneration and includes a number of Marian prayers and practices.