Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry

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Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (usually known as Joseph Gratry; 10 March 1805 − 6 February 1872) was a French Catholic priest, author and theologian.

Biography

Gratry was born at

In 1852 he and Abbé Pierre Pététot revived Bérulle's Congregation of the Oratory. Gratry was a brilliant academic, holding doctorates in both the humanities and theology. He envisioned communities which could be schools of theological exploration, working with the scientific focus of modern society.^[2]

He became vicar-general for the bishop of Orleans in 1861, professor of moral theology at the

Gratry developed throat cancer at the end of his life and went to Montreux, Switzerland, for treatment, where he died.^{[citation needed]} He was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris by his sister.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• De la connaissance de Dieu, (The Knowledge of God) opposing Positivism (1855)
• La Logique (1856)
• Les Sources, conseils pour la conduite de l'esprit (1861−1862)
• La Philosophie du credo (1861)
• Commentaire sur l'évangile de Saint Matthieu (1863)
• Jésus-Christ: réponse à M. Renan (1864)
• Les Sophistes et la critique (in controversy with E. Vacherot) (1864)
• La Morale et la loi de l'histoire, (Morality and the law of History), (1868)
• Mgr. l'évêque d'Orléans et Mgr. l'archevêque de Malines (1869), containing a clear exposition of the historical arguments against the doctrine of papal infallibility.^[1]

References

Sources

• Marias, Julian. La filosofia del Padre Gratry; 2nd ed. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1948 (in Spanish)

Further reading

• Chauvin, Amédée (1911) Le père Gratry, 1805-1872: l'homme et l'oeuvre d'apres des documents inedits; Nouv. éd., rev. et augm. Paris: Bloud. (1st ed. 1901)

External links

• George M. Sauvage (1913). "Auguste-Joseph-Alphonse Gratry" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• El sentido de lo infinito en Gratry by Máximo Lameiro.