Ignace Hyacinthe Amat de Graveson

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Ignace Hyacinthe Amat de Graveson (born July 13, 1670 in Graveson , Département Bouches-du-Rhône , † July 26, 1733 in Arles ) was a French theologian . He belonged to the Dominican order .

Life

Ignace Hyacinthe Amat de Graveson came from a noble family and was appointed to the clergy. Therefore, at the age of 14, he went to the Dominican monastery in Arles, where he began his scientific training. After completing basic schooling, his superiors sent him to the Saint-Jacques College in Paris , which belonged to their order , where he was to study theology . He attended the lectures of the professors of the Sorbonne and obtained a theological doctorate after completing his studies .

Graveson then taught theology in his monastery in Arles. Then he was called to Rome by the general of the order, Father Cloche, to take up one of the six chairs that Cardinal Girolamo Casenate had founded in order to preserve and pass on the teaching of Thomas Aquinas in its purity. Graveson lived up to the expectations placed in him. In particular, he tried to prove that the teaching of the great philosopher and theologian had nothing in common with the beliefs that emerged at his time and that were inferred from Thomas' utterances, which were considered heretical, and that there was not the slightest resemblance between Thomism and Jansenism .

With his efforts, Graveson was particularly popular with the conservative Catholics and their high-ranking patrons, such as King Viktor Amadeus II of Sardinia offered him the first professorship at the University of Turin , which he turned down. He also enjoyed the respect of Pope Benedict XIII. who often considered him a pleasant teacher of pure Christian doctrine and appointed him one of the theologians of the council held in Rome in 1725 , which demanded submission to the bull Unigenitus and condemned the Jansenist claims. Graveson's influence was largely responsible for the fact that the Cardinal von Noailles , Archbishop of Paris, broke away from the Jansenists, reconciled with the Holy See and signed the aforementioned bull.

Although Graveson would most likely have gained an even greater reputation with the head of the church through these successful negotiations and would have had an even more brilliant career ahead of him, he felt no desire for honorary posts. In addition, since the bad air in Rome did not suit his health, which had been weakened by much work and exertion, he retired to his monastery in Arles, where he died on July 26, 1733 at the age of 63.

Works

Graveson was also a hardworking writer. His works are heavily influenced by scholastic theology . Most valued was his church history , which was written in Latin and ran until 1721 ( Historia ecclesiastica Veteris et Novi Testamenti, variis colloquiis digesta , 9 volumes, Rome 1717-21). This work was also distributed in Germany through a reprint published several times (9 volumes, 1727, 1737 and 1751) and expanded and continued by the prolific writer Giovanni Domenico Mansi ( Editio nova cum additionibus et continuatione JD Mansi , 9 volumes, Bassano 1774). The church history of the Old Testament ( Historia ecclesiastica Veteris Testamenti , 3 volumes, Venice 1761–62) is only a specially printed section of the previous work.

Other works by Graveson include: a:

  • Tractatus de vita, mysteriis et annis Jesu Christi, servatoris nostri , 1711
  • Tractatus de Scriptura Sacra , 1715
  • Vita generosi Ludovici de Berton, domini de Crillon , 1724
  • Epistola ad amicum scriptae theologico-historico-polemicae , 1729
  • Epistola apologeticae pro doctrina S. Augustini et S. Thomae , Verona 1737

A complete edition of Graveson's works has been published under the title Opera omnia, complect. historiam ecclesiasticam Veteris et Novi Testamenti variis colloquiis digestam pro theologiae candidatis usque ad XVII saeculum, tractatus varios, epistolas… (7 volumes, Venice 1740; 18 volumes, Bassano 1774–91). The smaller scriptures concern the doctrine of grace and predestination ; there is also a story of the brave and pious General Crillon, which, however, cannot stand up to historical criticism. His church history, which found readers especially in Italy in the 18th century, was already forgotten in the 19th century.

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SURNAME Amat de Graveson, Ignace Hyacinthe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Graveson , Bouches-du-Rhône department
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1733
Place of death Arles