POULPIQUET, AMBROISE de. - Dominican apologist, b. at Lesmel in Plouguerneau (Finistère) on 25 June 1878, d. at Brest on 22 Apr. 1915. A religious in 1896, ordained a priest in 1902, he taught apologetics at the theological college of Le Saulchoir from 1906 to 1914.

He wrote three important works: L'objet intégral de l'apologétique (Paris 1912), which shows the synthetic character of the motives of credibility and the necessary union existing between "internal" and "external" apologetics; Le miracle et ses suppléances (ibid. 1914), which emphasizes the supernatural "presuppositions" of the miracle, which confer on it its whole value as a motive of credibility, and its social aspect; L'Eglise catholique. Etude apologétique (ibid. 1923), a posthumous work (with a preface by A. Gardeil), in which to the historical aspect of the apologetics of the Church are added some important developments on the Church as a motive of credibility, and on the respective methods of apologetics and theology. He also published a good number of articles in the Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques and in the Revue du clergé français.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: H. D. Noble, A. de P., in L'année dominicaine, 57 (1921), pp. 58-66, 109-16; A. Gardel, preface to L'Église catholique, ed. cit.

Tommaso Camelot

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