Summa theologiae moralis, vol. III, 1940 r.

Summa theologiae moralis, vol. III, 1940 r. - H. Noldin S. J.

Jesuit moral theologian; b. Salurn of the South Tyrol, Austria, Jan. 30, 1838; d. Vienna, Nov. 7, 1922. Ordained in 1861, Noldin entered the Society of Jesus four years later, and after ten years of study and teaching became rector of the Jesuit theologate at Innsbruck. There, in 1883, he wrote his first book, Die Andacht zum Heiligsten Herzen Jesu (11th German ed. 1923; first English tr. W. K. Kent, OSC, The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1905). From 1886 to 1890 Noldin edited Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie and then taught moral theology for 19 years at the University of Innsbruck. In 1902 he published his major work, Summa Theologiae Moralis, a three-volume Latin textbook including sections on the fundamental principles of morality, the Commandments, and the Sacraments, and two appendixes, one on the Sixth Commandment and the use of marriage, and the other on ecclesiastical penalties.