Anthony John Maas

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Anthony John Maas SJ (* 1858 in Barkhausen , † 1927 in St. Andrew-on-Hudson near Poughkeepsie ) was a German-American Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar .

Life

Maas was born in Barkhausen in 1858 in what was then Prussian Westphalia , received both state and private lessons and attended grammar school in Arnsberg . He continued his spiritual and scientific training in branches of the Society of Jesus in Manresa , Catalonia , Manresa House in New York , and Woodstock, Maryland .

Maas entered the Jesuit order in 1877 and was ordained priest in 1887 . In the United States of America he was Professor of Scripture Studies (1897-1905) at Woodstock College, Associate Editor of The Messenger magazine in New York (1905-1907), Rector of Woodstock College (1907-1912) and Provincial of the Religious Province New York-Maryland, based in New York State (1912–1927), where he passed away in 1927 in the St. Andrew-on-Hudson Jesuit Seminary north of Poughkeepsie (now Hyde Park ).

Critique of the Biblical Criticism

In an astute, didactic and sometimes amusing way, Anthony J. Maas deals with what he believes to be exaggerated editorial-historical hypotheses about the origin of the five books of Moses . As a result of a thorough investigation of the problem in the Catholic Encyclopedia , he writes about the theories, which he previously invalidated in their most important arguments, which deny the authorship of Moses on the basis of indications inherent in the text and instead make highly elaborate, minute speculations about the history of the text: “Auf den At first glance, one is struck by the complex nature of this theory; usually the truth is simpler. Second, one is impressed by the unique nature of the hypothesis; antiquity offers nothing that equals it. Third, when one reads or studies the Pentateuch in the light of this theory, one is impressed by the capricious nature of the editor; he often kept what should have been left out and left out what should have been kept. The critics themselves must, time and again, take refuge in the work of the editor in order to save their own view of the Pentateuch. One writer recently did not hesitate to call the complex editor a brilliant ass . Fourth, a truth-loving, straightforward reader is, of course, dismayed by the literary fictions and forgeries, editorial changes and misappropriations that the critical theory of the Pentateuch documents implies. The moderate critics seek to escape this inconvenience: some invoke the distinction between ancient and modern standards of literary authenticity and editorial care; others de facto justify the means by the end. Oettli regards the dilemma 'either the work of Moses or the work of a deceiver' as an expression of sheer irrationality; Kautzsch , anointing, refers to the depth of the wisdom and knowledge of God, whose ways we cannot fathom, but must admire. The left wing of criticism openly admits that it is pointless to cover up the matter; it is the result of scientific research that both the form and the content of a large part of the Old Testament are based on conscious fiction and falsification. "

Anthony J. Maas was astonished at the closeness of the majority of the critical scholars to the good arguments of outstanding scholars, who reasonably presented the possibility of Mosaic authorship - and whose contributions to the discussion were nevertheless not taken into account or not thoughtfully processed - as well as the paradox Lack of a fundamentally epistemological and thus also self-critical attitude of the majority of the critics in particular. Maas writes: “ Former views are simply killed by silence; even Reuss and Dillmann are junk-iron, and there is a noticeable lack of judgment as to what can or cannot be known. "(German:" Earlier views are simply hushed up; even Reuss and Dillmann are old iron, and there is a noticeable lack of judgment as to what one can and cannot know. ")

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel History. B. Herder, St. Louis, Missouri 1891.
  • A day in the temple. B. Herder, St. Louis, Missouri 1892.
  • Christ in Type and Prophecy. Benziger brothers, New York / Cincinnati 1893–96.
  • The Gospel According to Saint Matthew with an Explanatory and Critical Commentary. B. Herder, St. Louis, Missouri 1898.

items

  • In the Encyclopedia Americana , New York 1920: New Testament Criticism .
  • In The Catholic Encyclopedia , New York 1907–1914: Abba , Absinthe , Abyss , Acacia , Alexander , Antichrist , Aquila and Priscilla , Babel , Editions of the Bible , Versions of the Bible , Genealogy of Jesus Christ , Christology , Elect , Elohim , Emmanuel , Ephod , Biblical Exegesis , Character of Jesus Christ , Chronology of the Life of Jesus Christ , Early Historical Documents on Jesus Christ , Bl. Virgin Mary u. a.

Web links

Wikisource: Author: Anthony John Maas  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maas, Anthony J. In: New Catholic Dictionary . The Universal Knowledge Foundation, New York 1929, p. 580, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  2. ^ The Sacred Heart Review , Volume 34, Number 18, Oct. 28, 1905, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Pictures from the property at Robert Kern Curtis under "Jesuit Stuff" . In "St. Andrew on Hudson - Then and Now" Peter Schineller SJ gives an insight into the history of the main building that is now used by the Culinary Institute of America .
  4. ^ Edgar Kellenberger: Samuel Oettli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 28, 2010 , accessed June 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ AJ Maas, "Pentateuch". In: The Catholic Encyclopedia. An international work of reference on the constitutions, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church. Volume XI, New York 1911, pp. 646–661, here p. 660. See the Pentateuch article by Anthony J. Maas in the first Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) on Wikisource.
  6. ↑ AJ Maas, "Pentateuch". In: The Catholic Encyclopedia , 1911, p. 657.
personal data
SURNAME Maas, Anthony John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Barkhausen
DATE OF DEATH 1927
Place of death St. Andrew-on-Hudson at Poughkeepsie