Édouard Hugon
Édouard Hugon | |
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Born | 25 August 1867 |
Died | 7 February 1929 |
Notable work | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Thomism |
Institutions | Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Main interests | Christian theology, metaphysics |
Édouard Hugon (25 August 1867 – 7 February 1929), Roman Catholic Priest, French Dominican, Thomistic philosopher and theologian trusted and held in high esteem by the Holy See, from 1909 to 1929 was a professor at the Pontificium Collegium Internationale Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, as well as a well-known author of philosophical and theological manuals within the school of traditional Thomism.[1]
Early biography
Florentin-Louis Hugon was born on 25 August 1867 in Lafarre (Loire), France, a small mountain village in the Diocese of Puy-en-Velay. His parents Florentin and Philomène Hugon were pious country folk. They had 13 children of which Florentin-Louis was the oldest.[2]
Formation
Hugon was educated first by his mother, then in the local school where he gained a reputation as a bright and pious student. He was invited to attend the Domenicana school at Poitiers in February 1882 where he was an outstanding student. Hugon showed a special interest in Ancient Greek, especially the writings of Homer whose Iliad he had partially committed to memory, thus gaining for himself among his classmates the nickname "Homer's grandson".
At eighteen years of age, having finished secondary school, he entered the Dominican Order in Rijckholt (nearby Maastricht, Holland), where the Studium of the Province of Lyons was taking refuge due to the persecutions and expulsions imposed by antagonistic members of the government. The following year he received the Dominican habit under the name Brother Édouard. In 1898 during a trip to the United States, being inexplicably detained by his Prior, he narrowly escaped the sinking of the passenger steamship La Bourgogne of the Compagnie Generale on which he was scheduled to sail, and on which nearly 600 people drowned.[3]
He made his solemn profession on 13 January 1890 and was ordained priest on 24 September 1892.
Career
Hugon began his lifelong teaching career immediately after ordination. He successively taught in Rijckholt, at Rosary Hill (New York), in Poitiers (France), in Angers (France), again at Rijckholt, and finally at the
Hugon was a member of the
He was instrumental in the causes to proclaim Saint Efrem and Saint Peter Canisius Doctors of the Church, and had a determining role in the canonization of Saint Joan of Arc. Hugon was a principal collaborator of Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the Cardinal Secretary of State, in publishing his famous Catechism.[5]
Piety
Rising each day at 4:30 Hugon celebrated Mass at 5:00 and spent the morning teaching and researching. In the afternoon he practiced the
Influence
Perhaps Hugon's most important and influential work as a writer is his contribution, along with that of the
The great
Works
Contribution to the ecclesiastical document known as The 24 Thomistic Theses.
Among Hugon's personal works, some of the best-known are:
- Les XXIV theses thomistes (The 24 Thomistic Theses), a work which explains the ecclesiastical document.
- Cursus philosophiae thomisticae, 4 vols. ("Thomistic Philosophy Course," based on the thought of St Thomas Aquinas as interpreted by John of St Thomas). (Ia: Logica; Ia-IIae: Philosophia Naturalis: Cosmologia; IIa-IIae: Philosophia Naturalis: Biologia et Psychologia; IIIa: Metaphysica.)
- Tractatus dogmatici, 3 vols. ("Dogmatic Treatises," a course on theology organized as a commentary on Aquinas' Summa Theologiae). (Ia: De Deo Uno et Trino, De Deo Creatore et Gubernatore, De angelis et de homine; IIa: De peccato originali et de gratia, De Verbo Incarnato et Redemptore, De Beata Virgine Maria Deipara; IIIa: De Sacramentis in communi et in speciali ac de Novissimis.)
- Hors de l'Église, point de salut ("Outside of the Church there is No Salvation," his Thomistic solution to the theological problem of salvation and membership in the Catholic Church).
- La causalite instrumentale dans l'ordre surnaturel ("Instrumental Causality in the Supernatural Order").
Notes
- ^ Ofm Kenan B Osborne The Permanent Diaconate: Its History and Place in the Sacrament 2007 - p214 "... J. M. Hervé, Jean Baptiste Gonet, Édouard Hugon, and Louis Billot."
- ^ "Edizioni Amicizia Cristiana - Édouard Hugon: Fuori della Chiesa non cè salvezza". www.edizioniamiciziacristiana.it. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ "Edizioni Amicizia Cristiana - Édouard Hugon: Fuori della Chiesa non cè salvezza". www.edizioniamiciziacristiana.it. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ "Edizioni Amicizia Cristiana - Édouard Hugon: Fuori della Chiesa non cè salvezza". www.edizioniamiciziacristiana.it. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ "Edizioni Amicizia Cristiana - Édouard Hugon: Fuori della Chiesa non cè salvezza". www.edizioniamiciziacristiana.it. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ "Edizioni Amicizia Cristiana -Édouard Hugon: Fuori della Chiesa non cè salvezza". www.edizioniamiciziacristiana.it. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Benedict M. Ashley, The Dominicans, 1990 http://domcentral.org/ecumenists-1900s/ Accessed 7 October 2012
- ^ Ite ad Thomam, loc. cit.
- ^ Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange O.P., Un théologien Apôtre, le Père Maître Édouard Hugon, Téqui, Paris 1929, pp. 5-8. Cfr. anche Abbé Henri Hugon, Le Père Hugon, Téqui, Paris 1930. http://www.edizioniamiciziacristiana.it/presfuoridellachiesa.htm Accessed 8 October 2012
References
- Angelo Walz, "Hugon (Edouard)" Dictionnaire de Spiritualité Vol. 7, Beauchesne: Paris, 1969; col. 858–859.
- M-Fr. Cazes, OP "In memoriam. Le très réverend Père Hugon" Revue thomiste 6(1929), 97–99.
- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, "In Memoriam. Un théologien apôtre, le P. Maître Édouard Hugon, professeur de dogme à l'Angelico, a Rome," Pierre Tequi: Paris, 1929.
External links
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. "Hugon, Eduard (Édouard)". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). col. 1148.
- "Tractatus dogmatici ad modum commentarii in praecipuas quaestiones dogmaticas Summae theologicae divi Thomae Aquinatis".
- Cursus philosophiae thomisticae, vol. 1: Logica, vol. 2: Philosophiae naturalis Ia-IIae: Cosmologia, and vol. 3: Philosophiae naturalis IIa-IIae: Biologia et psychologia.
- Presentation of Fuori della Chiesa non c'è salvezza (Edizioni Amicizia Cristiana: Chietti, 2007), the Italian translation of Hors de l'Église, point de salut.
- "The 24 Thomistic Theses" (document of the Sacred Congregation of Studies, 1914).
- Les Vingt-quatre thèses thomistes (Hugon's commentary on the 24 theses, a work requested of him by Pope Benedict XV).