Daniello Concina (20 October 1687 - 21 February 1756) was an Italian Dominican preacher, controversialist and theologian. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Year 1756 ( MDCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Order of Preachers ( Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum) after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective
Biography
He was born at Clauzetto or San Daniele, villages in Friuli. Clauzetto is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 100 km Friuli ( Friulian:
On the completion of his early studies at the Jesuit college at Görz (then in Austria), he entered the Dominican Order making his religious profession in March 1708, in the convent of Sts. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Gorizia (Gurize Gorica Görz is a town in northeastern Italy, at the foot of the Alps and bordering Slovenia. The Order of Preachers ( Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum) after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is For Profession of faith (public avowal of faith according to a traditional formula see Creed. Martin and Rose. After studying philosophy three years, he was sent to study theology in the convent of the Holy Rosary at Venice, where he spent eight years under the direction of the fathers of his order, Andruisso and Zanchio. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective In 1717 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy, and later to that of theology, in the convent of Forlì. Forlì ( Latin: Forum Livii) is a Comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forlì
About this time he began to attract attention as a preacher. He confined himself at first to the smaller places, but his success soon brought him to the pulpits of the chief cities of Italy; and he preached the Lenten sermons seven times in the principal churches of Rome.
He died in Venice in 1756.
Works
Concina's literary activity was confined chiefly to moral topics. His career as a theologian and controversialist began with the publication of his first book, "Commentarius historico apologeticus", etc. (Venice, 1736, 1745), in which be refuted the opinion, then recently adopted by the Bollandists, that St. Dominic had borrowed his ideas and form of religious poverty from St. Francis of Assisi. The Bollandists are an association of scholars - originally all Jesuit, but now including non-Jesuits -- philologists and historians -- who since the early seventeenth century Saint Dominic (Domingo also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo de Guzmán Garcés (1170 &ndash August 6 For the opera by Olivier Messiaen see Saint-François d'Assise. While engaged in the sharp controversy aroused by this work, he entered into another concerning the Lenten fast, which was not closed until Benedict XIV issued on 30 May, 1741 the Encyclical "Non ambigimus" which was favourable to Concina's contention. Pope Benedict XIV ( March 31, 1675 &ndash May 3, 1758) born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from August 17 An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Christian church
Shortly afterwards he published his Storia del probabilismo e rigorismo (1743), a work composed of theological, moral and critical dissertations. Being directed against the Jesuits, it naturally gave rise to a large controversial literature. The work was highly praised by some notably by Benedict XIV, but among others it met with a very unfavourable reception. The Fathers of the Society of Jesus, the recognized champions of probable opinions in matters of conscience, were not slow in defending their position. The controversy reached a climax when Concina published, under the auspices of Benedict XIV, his Theologia christiana dogmatico-moralis (12 volumes in quarto, 1749-51). The Jesuits appealed to the pope to have it condemned on the ground that it contained errors and was very injurious to the Society. A commission of theologians was then appointed to examine the work, with the result that Concina was requested to prefix to the subsequent edition a declaration dictated by the pope. This declaration, which was practically a summary of the petition of condemnation made by his opponents, appeared in the edition of 1752, but that work itself showed no changes of importance, except the addition of one chapter to the preface in which the author protested that he had always entertained the sincerest regard for the Society of Jesus, that as private theologian he refuted opinions which he considered lax, regardless of authorship, and that if he had erred in any way or done any wrong, he was ready to make a full retractation (cf. Theol. Christ. , ch. xiii in praef. t. 1, p. cxxiv).
In his Theologia christiana Concina found occasion to pay to the Society as a whole a glowing tribute. Many of its writers are spoken of by him in terms of high esteem. In Italy he promoted the publication of a moral theology by the French Jesuit Gabriel Antoine, which Benedict XIV ordered to be taught in the College of the Propaganda Fide. Ethics is a branch of Philosophy dealing with right and wrong in human behavior The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples ( Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelisatione) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for
He was an ardent probabiliorist, and from his point of view many of the opinions of the probabilists were lax and pernicious. In Theology and Philosophy, probabilism (from Latin probare, to test approve holds that in the absence of certainty Probability In Theology and Philosophy, probabilism (from Latin probare, to test approve holds that in the absence of certainty Probability In refuting them he at times undoubtedly censured their authors too severely and spoke with an excessive asperity. However, he placed a salutary, if disagreeable, restraint upon the new thought of the time. Today it is readily seen that some of the authors whom he attacked favoured a dangerous laxism. Probabilism, in Catholic Moral theology, provides a way of answering the question about what to do when On the other hand, it cannot be denied that many of his views are now considered severe, some classing him among the rigorists. Probabilism, in Catholic Moral theology, provides a way of answering the question about what to do when That Concina was a theologian of no mean order is evidenced by the fact that Benedict XIV appointed him consultor of several Roman Congregations. A consultor is one who gives council ie a counselor In the Catholic Church, it is a specific title for various advisory positions in the Roman Curia A congregation is a type of Dicastery (department with a jurisdiction of the Roman Curia, the central administrative organism of the Catholic Church. Moreover, in his work De Synodo Dioecesana, as also in his Encyclical Libentissime of 10 June 1745, the pope refers to Concina as an authority on the question of the Lenten fast. Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 1745 ( MDCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
Concina is the author of about forty works, several of which are believed to be still in Italian libraries awaiting an editor.
Source
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