BARON, VINCENT

BARON, VINCENT. - Preacher and controversialist, b. 17 May 1604 at Martres, d. at Paris on 21 Jan. 1674. He became a Dominican at Toulouse in 1621. A profound theologian, of broad culture, clear and facile in expression.

Works: Theologia moralis adversus laxiores probabilistas, pars prior (Paris 1665); Manuductionis ad moralem theol. pars altera (ibid. 1665); S. Augustini et s. Thomae vera et una mens de libertate humana et gratia divina explicatur (ibid. 1666); Theologiae moralis summa bipartita (2 vols., ibid. 1667-68); Libri 5 apologetici pro religione, utraque theologia, moribus et inribus O. P. (ibid. 1666); Duo postremi apologiae libri (ibid. 1666): these last two works, published in 5 volumes, were placed on the Index because of their rigorism; Ethicae christianae XVII loci (ibid. 1673); Apologia pro s. congreg. Indicis (Cracow 1662); Responsio ad librum Joh. de Cardenus, s. n. t. [1672?]; L'hérésie convaincue ou la théologie des luthériens et des calvinistes réduite à quatre principes et refutée (Paris 1668).

BIBL.: J. Quétif-J. Echard, Scriptores O. P., Paris 1721, pp. 655-56; Hurter, II, col. 271 add.; P. Mandonnet, s. V. in DThC, II, cols. 425-26. Alfonso d'Amato
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“BARON, VINCENT.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 526. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/baron-vincent.