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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.
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 purpose of these parochial missions and the homilies preached by the Redemptorists is to "... invite people to a deeper love for God and a fuller practice of the Christian life." [ 5 ] In accordance with the instructions of Liguori, preaching is to be down-to-earth and understandable to all who are listening.
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.
Before the publication of the Biblia de la București, other partial translations were published, such as the Slavic-Romanian Tetraevangelion (Gospel) (Sibiu, 1551), Coresi's Tetraevangelion (Brașov, 1561), The Book of Psalms from Brașov (1570), the Palia de la Orăștie (Saxopolitan Old Testament) from 1581/1582 (the translators were Calvinist pastors from Transylvania), The New Testament ...
In May 1999, Romania was the first majority-Orthodox country to be visited by Pope John Paul II, who was personally welcomed by Teoctist Arăpașu, the Patriarch of All Romania. [48] Problems continued to be faced in the relation with the Orthodox Church, in respect to the status of Greek-Catholic status and property.
Loci Theologici was a term applied by Melanchthon to Protestant systems of dogmatics and retained by many as late as the seventeenth century. It is also a way of ordering the strength of different sources used in Catholic theology usually attributed to Melchor Cano and still in use today.