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.
Admitted to the Order on 7 Dec. 1854, he taught philosophy for two years, then dogmatic theology for twenty-two years to the scholastics at Laval (1864-80) and Jersey (1880-88); subsequently, for three years (1892-94), he taught at the Catholic Institute of Paris, where he remained until his death as spiritual director and writer.
In addition to theological treatises intended for students, which show him to be a theologian more positive than scholastic, he published: *S. Thomae Aquinatis doctrina sincera de Unione hypostatica* (Paris 1864); works of devotional dissemination based on theology that are still well received and studied include: *La dévotion au S. Coeur de Jésus d’après les documents authentiques et la théologie* (Paris 1893; Italian ed. Naples 1895) and especially: *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.