BUCHINGER, MICHAEL. - German theologian and preacher, b. at Colmar in 1520 and d. there in 1571. After studying at Heidelberg and obtaining the baccalaureate at Freiburg im Breisgau in 1539, from 1542 to 1569 he exercised his ministry in various localities of Germany: he was thus at Molsheim, at Strasbourg, in 1564 he was parish priest at Wolsheim, whence he moved to Schlettstadt and finally to Colmar, where in 1569 we find him as preacher. In defense of the authority of the papacy, he sketched a history of the Church, claiming its apostolicity in the uninterrupted succession of the pontiffs from St. Peter to Paul IV. Without excessive critical pretensions, with the vehemence of the orator rather than the precision of the critic, one would say that he aims more at making an impression on the heart than at bending the reason. No differently, in his works of preaching he alternates excellently the warmth of the orator with the coldness of the apologist.
He wrote: De imaginibus, ieiunio, Eucharistia (s. l. 1543); De mysterio altaris (Cologne 1555); Ecclesia (s.l. 1556); republished under the title Historia ecclesiastica nova (Mainz 1560); in German Sermons on the Decalogue, the Gospels of Sundays and Feasts of the Saints (3 vols., s. l. 1567-70); De Missae sacrificio (Antwerp 1588).
Bibliography3 worksHurter, III, col. 94; N. Paulus, s. v. in LThK, II, col. 607; P. Polman, s. v. in DHG, X, col. 1028.
BIBL.: Hurter, III, col. 94; N. Paulus, s. v. in LThK, II, col. 607; P. Polman, s. v. in DHG, X, col. 1028.
Zollini, Vito. “Buchinger, michael.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 170. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/buchinger-michael.
MLA
Zollini, Vito. “Buchinger, michael.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 170. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/buchinger-michael.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_buchinger_michael,
author = {Zollini, Vito},
title = {Buchinger, michael},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {170},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/buchinger-michael}
}
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