Eusebius Amort

Eusebius Amort (* November 15, 1692 at the Beaver mill at Tolz, † February 5, 1775 in Polling (Upper Bavaria) ) was a Catholic theologian.

Biography

After leaving grammar school in 1708 at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) occurred Eusebius ( baptismal name: Thomas ) Amort 1709 one at the Augustinian Canons in the pen polling. From 1717 he taught philosophy, theology and canon law. 1720 Amort was co-founder of the learned society, the Bavarian Musenberg. In the first years of his teaching career employment with astronomy, thematically, above all, was about the validity of the Copernican theory falls. From 1733 to 1735 Eusebius Amort held to studies in Rome, what a lively correspondence with Pope Benedict XIV, many scholars and cardinals had the consequence. In 1759 he became a founding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Amort was versatile and formed a respected scientist, particularly of moral theology and canon law. Of his more than 70 works, many are only in manuscript preserved in the Bavarian State Library.

Special Amort gained fame in the dispute about the authenticity of private revelations of Mary of Agreda, who he faced extremely critical. He described their private revelations as " doubtful " and her posthumously published book Mistica Ciudad de Dios ( " Mystical City of God " ) as " apocryphal ". He tried to identify shortcomings in the private revelations as well as the strong influence of the imagination of Mary Agreda. The personal sanctity of Mary of Agreda was never denied by him.

After intensive study of the Fathers, Saints ( also known mystics in particular ) and theologians he put up 125 rules on the distinction between true and false private revelations, but these are partly too strict. Although his teaching on the private revelations was the latest with the research Prosper Lambertinis, the future Pope Benedict XIV, overtaken in De beatificatione et canonizatione servorum Dei, but offered the impetus for the later standard inclusion of medicine, humanities, natural sciences, etc. in the assessment of private revelations.

Amort further proved by intensive study of the sources, that the Imitation of Christ ( " Imitation of Christ " ) by Thomas a Kempis, and not by Johannes Gerson came. In moral theology, he took between rigorists and probabilists a middle position and was with Alfonso Maria de Liguori founder of Äquiprobabilismus.

Works

• Nova Philosophiae Planetarum et Artis Criticae Systemata Adumbrata. , 1723.
• Philosophia Pollingana ad normam Burgundicae. 1730.
• De origine, progressu, valore ac fructu Indulgentiarum. In 1735.
• De Revelationibus, Visionibus et Apparationibus Privatis regulae ... 1744.
• Controversia de Revelationibus Agredanis. In 1749.
• Nova Expositions de falsitate Revelationum Agredanarum ... 1751st
• Theologia Eclectica moralis et scholastica. 4 volumes of Würzburg in 1752.
• Theologia moralis inter rigorem et laxitatem media. Augsburg 1757th
• Elementa iuris Canonici. 3 volumes 1757th
• Three essays on librarianship, 1726-1727 published by anonymous on Parnassus Boicus: 1 Of Büchereyen or Bibliothecken in common. 2 By order and establishment of Bibliothecken. 3 Of the Bibliothecken Bayrlands.
• Contributions and Beylagen to: Charitable viewing the latest headlines, what religion ~ customs and improvement of the human race concern. In conjunction with a company of scholars. Ed G. F. Seiler, Erlangen from 1776 to 1800.
• Contributions to the ecclesiastical history of the 18th century: from the handwritten estate of regul. Chorherrn Eusebius Amort / zusgest. by J. Friedrich. Munich: Verlag der k Academy in Comm. G. Franz, 1876.