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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.
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.
Liguori is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), Roman Catholic Bishop, writer, Theologian, and founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
The Redemptorists, officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Latin: Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR, [1] is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brothers).
Madonna painted by St. Alphonsus Liguori, c. 1718 Mainly pastoral in nature, the Mariology of Alphonsus Liguori rediscovers, integrates and defends the Mariology of Augustine and Ambrose and other fathers and represents an intellectual defence of Mariology in the eighteenth century. [ 33 ]
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.
Theologia universa, speculativa et dogmatica, a broad scholastic work which received an enthusiastic reception and established Antoine's theological reputation; Theologia moralis universa (Nancy, 1726); another popular work, republished sixty times, including a 1747 Roman edition by Filippo da Carbognano with added chapters on Condemned Propositions, Reserved Cases, decrees of Benedict XIV, etc.
He was born at Nottuln in Westphalia ().He entered the Jesuit order in 1619, and taught scholastic and moral theology in Cologne.He became rector of the Jesuit college at Hildesheim and then at Münster, where he died on 31 January 1668, being at the time father-confessor to Bishop Christoph von Galen.