RASSLER, CHRISTOPH. — Jesuit moral theologian, born at Costanza on 12 August 1654, died in Rome on 16 July 1723.
After many years of teaching philosophy, dogmatic theology, and, above all, moral theology, he was summoned to Rome as general reviewer of books and prefect of studies at the Collegio Germanico. In the great controversy over the licitness of using probable opinions, he upheld and defended a moderate probabilism in the work Controversia theologica tripartita de recto usu opinionum probabilium, written in refutation of the work of Superior General Tirso González; but the censors prohibited its printing, and, despite his persistence, he was unable to obtain permission to publish it; only after the general’s death (although it seems that he had already
RATDOLT, ERHARD — Bibliographical description of the original edition of the Chronica Hungarorum, Augsburg 1488.
Printing may have begun at Dillingen in 1693; but it was interrupted and the work was not published. After the death of the superior general, however, he was able to develop his ideas in another work: Norma vecti (Ingolstadt 1713), which constitutes his principal work. In this he appears inclined toward equiprobabilism; but for this reason, contrary to the assertion of Astrain, followed by Pastor, he cannot be regarded as its founder.