TANNER, ADAM. - Jesuit, theologian, b. at Innsbruck on 14 April 1572, d. at Unken (near Salzburg) on 25 May 1632.
He taught dogmatic and moral theology and controversy for 34 years at Munich, Ingolstadt, Prague and Vienna; and endowed as he was with a keen intelligence and wide culture, he enjoyed the reputation of being the best theologian of the Counter-Reformation in Germany, while his opponents adorned him with the title of "insolent." He took part in the colloquies of Regensburg of 1601, of which he drew up a Relatio compendiosa (which he also translated into German [Munich 1602]) and a lively confutation of the Augsburg Confession: Anatomia confessionis augustanae (Ingolstadt 1613); in the conflict between Venice and Paul V he defended the rights of the Pope in Defensio Ecclesiae libertatis (ibid. 1607), vindicating the freedom of the Church against the tyrannical aggressions of the State. The work that brought him the greatest fame is: Universa theologia scholastica (4 vols., ibid. 1626-27), which was compared to the Summa of St. Thomas, not only for the order of the questions, but also for the solidity of the doctrine and the conciseness of the exposition. In it he follows the doctrine of St. Thomas, but with an eye to the times and to the development of theories; and while on the one hand he remains firm in the opinion of the incorruptibility of the stars, even though he had directly observed the lunar spots, on the other, in the question of Grace and of the immunity of princes, he goes too far. He also concerned himself with mitigating the severity in trials against witches.
Bibliography5 worksSommervogel, VII, 1843-55; Hurter, III, 638-40; B. Duhr, Stellung der Jesuiten in den deutschen Hexenprozessen, Freiburg im Br. 1900, p. 45
BIBL.: Sommervogel, VII, 1843-55; Hurter, III, 638-40; B. Duhr, Stellung der Jesuiten in den deutschen Hexenprozessen, Freiburg im Br. 1900, p. 45 f.; id., Gesch. des Jesuiten in den Ländern deutscher Zunge, II, II, ibid. 1912, pp. 380-400, 516-21; W. Lurz, A. T. und die Gnadenstreitigkeiten des 17. Jahrh., Breslau 1932 (cf. observations in Zeitschr. für kathol. Theol., 55 [1933], pp. 313-14).
Testore, Celestino. “Tanner, adam.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1732. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/tanner-adam.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Tanner, adam.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1732. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tanner-adam.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_tanner_adam,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Tanner, adam},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {1732},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/tanner-adam}
}
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