TERRIEN, JEAN-BAPTISTE. - Jesuit, theologian, born at St. Laurent-des-Autels (Maine et Loire) on 26 Aug. 1832, died at Bellevue (Paris) on 5 Dec. 1903.
Having entered the Order on 7 Dec. 1854, he taught philosophy for 2 years, then dogmatic theology for 22 years at the scholasticates of Laval (1864-80) and Jersey (1880-88); thereafter for 3 years (1892-94) at the Catholic Institute of Paris, where he subsequently remained until his death, as spiritual director and writer.
Besides the theological treatises intended for students, which show him to have been a theologian more positive than scholastic, he published: S. Thomae Aquinatis doctrina sincera de Unione hypostatica (Paris 1864); among works of devotional popularization, grounded in theology, the following are still well received and studied: La dévotion au S. Coeur de Jésus d'après les documents authentiques et la théologie (ibid. 1893; Italian trans. Naples 1895), and above all: La grâce et la gloire ou la filiation adoptive des enfants de Dieu (2 vols., Paris 1897); La Mère de Dieu et la Mère des hommes d'après les Pères et la théologie (4 vols., ibid. 1900-1902), all works of high value for the precision and abundance of their doctrine.