LAFORÊT, NICOLAS-JOSEPH. - Belgian prelate and theologian, b. at Graide on 23 Feb. 1823, d. at Louvain on 26 Jan. 1872. He was a professor and then rector magnificus (1865) of the University of Louvain, where he encouraged the development of traditionalism.

He wrote important works: Dissertatio historico-dogmatica de methodo theologiae sive de auctoritate Ecclesiae Catholicae tamquam regula fidei christianae (Louvain 1849); Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire de la théologie dogmatique (ibid. 1851); Philosophie morale (ibid. 1855); Dogmes catholiques exposés, prouvés et vengés des attaques de l'hérésie et de l'incrédulité (4 vols., Brussels 1855-59); La papauté et la civilisation européenne (Louvain 1860); Des erreurs philosophiques contemporaines (ibid. 1862); Le Syllabus et les plaies de la société moderne (ibid. 1872, posthumous). He published other works and many articles in scholarly journals.

Bibliography5 works

BIBL.: Hurter, V, II, col. 1519; obituary in Annuaire de l'Univ. cathol. de Louvain, 37 (1873), pp. 296-337; I. Bellamy, La théologie catholique au XIXe siècle, 2nd ed., Paris 1904, p. 45; J. Henry, N. J. L., in Annales de l'Inst. supér. de philosophie, 5 (1924), pp. 42-149; id., in Collectanea Mechliniensia, 16 (1927), pp. 181-202.

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