Louis Thomassin

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Louis Thomassin (Louis de Thomassin d'Eynac) (born August 28, 1619 in Aix-en-Provence , France , † December 24, 1695 in Paris ) was a French oratorian , philosopher and canon lawyer .

Life

Born in Aix-en-Provence as the son of the Burgundy Finance Councilor Joseph Thomassin, Louis de Thomassin d'Eynac entered the oratorio of Pierre de Bérulle at the age of 14 . In 1643 he was ordained a priest. He soon became a teacher of philosophy in Pézenas. He taught philosophy in Lyon and other cities, and eventually became professor of theology in Saumur and Paris. He dealt with the newer philosophy, René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi , but was based on Plato and Augustine . He also taught church history and canon law at the Saint Magloire seminary in Paris . His lectures were very popular, even from laypeople. Because he was attacked by the Gallicans and Jansenists ( Port Royal des Champs ), Thomassin d'Eynac withdrew from public life and wrote his extensive major works. Thomassin was considered one of the most learned men of his time. His greatest work, Ancienne et nouvelle discipline de l'Eglise touchant les bénéfices et les bénéficiers with which he the history of canon law is worked up, includes 93 volumes. He died at the age of 76 in the Saint Magloire seminary.

Services

Louis de Thomassin d'Eynac is, alongside Pierre de Bérulle, the most important theologian of the French oratorio of the 17th century. Because of his legal and liturgical historical works, he is considered the "father of legal history" .

His christocentric spirituality is influenced by the piety of Bérulles, but deepens it dogmatically.

Louis de Thomassin d'Eynac is the founder of heortology , the liturgical doctrine of church holidays; the term also goes back to him.

Among the more recent theologians he influenced Mathias Joseph Scheeben in dogmatics and Nikolaus Nilles in canons .

Works

  • Dissertations in concilia generalia et particularia. , Vol. 1, Paris 1667.
  • Vetus Et Nova Ecclesiae Disciplina Circa Beneficia Et Beneficiarios. Distributa In Tres Partes Sive Tomos, quae & ipsae in tres Libros singulae distributae sunt; Opus ex Sanctis Patribus, ex Conciliis, ex quorumque temporum Historicis decerptum. Anisson & Posuel, Lugduni (Lyon) 1705ff. (= Ancienne et nouvelle discipline de l'église. , The work first appeared in French)
  • Dogmata theologica. 1680-1689. (8 volumes) Paris 1864–1872.
  • Memoires Sur La Grace: Ou L'On Represente les Sentimens de S. Augustin, & des autres Peres Grecs & Latins, de S. Thomas, & de presque tous les Theologiens jusques au Concile de Trente; & depuis ce Concile, des plus celebres Docteurs des Universites d'Italie, de France, d'Espagne, d'Alemagne, des Païs-bas, & d'Angleterre; Ouvrage qui peut servir à réünir les opinions qui partagent l'Ecole. Du Prat, Louvain 1668.
  • About the divine office and its connection with inner prayer. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1952. (= Traité de l'office divin dans ses rapports avec l'oraison mental. )

literature

  • Franz J. Busch: Lex Christi secundam naturam. The christological-salvation-historical unity and identity of the moral law according to Louis de Thomassin († 1695). Gregoriana, Rome 1975. (Analecta Gregoriana 199)
  • Robert Lachenschmid: Louis de Thomassin's doctrine of incarnation: A Platonic explication of the mystery of the incarnation. A contribution to the dogma history of the 17th century. Paulinus, Trier 1968.
  • Pierre Clair: Louis Thomassin. Texts imprimé: 1619-1695. Étude bio-bibliographique avec vingt lettres et deux textes inédits. Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1964.
  • Paul Nordhues : Louis de Thomassin's concept of the church, in its dogmatic context and in its vital meaning. St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1958.
  • Henri Bremond : La métaphysique des saints. = Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours. Vol. 7. Bloud et Gay, Paris 1929.
  • Georg Kreuzer:  Thomassin (d'Eynac), Louis de. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1552-553.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henri Bremond: The Essential Prayer. Pustet, Regensburg 1936. p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Thomassin, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomassin d'Eynac, Louis de; Thomassinus, Ludovicus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French oratorian, philosopher and canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence , France
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1695
Place of death Paris