Contenson, Vincent
Contenson, Vincent
Dominican theologian and preacher, born at Altivillare (Gers), Diocese of Condon, France, 1641; died Creil-sur-Oise, 26 December, 1674. His epitaph in the church of that place described him as “in years a youth, mature in wisdom and in virtue venerable”. Despite his short life, he gave proof in his writings of considerable learning and won remarkable popularity by his pulpit utterances. He was seventeen years old when he entered the Order of Preachers. After teaching philosophy for a time at Albi, and theology at Toulouse, he began a career of preaching as brilliant as it was brief. He was stricken in the pulpit at Creil, where he was giving a mission. His reputation as a theologian rests on a work entitled “Theologia Mentis et Cordis”, published posthumously at Lyons in nine volumes, 1681; second edition, 1687. His life is found in the fifth volume of the “Histoire des hommes illustres de l’ordre de Saint Dominique”, by Père Touron. The peculiar merit of his theology consists in an attempt to get away from the prevailing dry reasoning of Scholasticism and, while retaining the accuracy and solidity of its method, to embellish it with illustrations and images borrowed from the Fathers, that appeal to the heart as well as the mind. This pious and learned compilation has not yet lost its value and utility for students and preachers.
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ROSE. New Gen. Biogr. Dict. (London, 1848); MORERI, Gr. Dict. Hist. (Paris, 1759). JOHN H. STAPLETON Transcribed by the Cloistered Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of the Infant Jesus, Lufkin, Texas Dedicated to St. Dominic
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Contenson, Vincent
a French theologian, was born at Altivillare, in the diocese of Condom, about 1640. He took the Dominican habit at Toulouse, February 2, 1657, and taught philosophy at Albi, then theology at Toulouse. He was very learned, and occupied the chair of eloquence. He died at Creil, December 26, 1674, leaving, Theologia Mentis et Cordis (Lyons, 1675, 1681, 1687). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen- Lexikon, s.v.