Adolphe tanquerey biography
- He was then sent to Rome to study Thomistic theology and canon law, after which he served on the faculty of the Sulpician seminary in Rodez for a time.
- Tanquerey attended the College of Saint-Lô and studied for the priesthood at the diocesan seminary of Coutances (1873) and at Saint-Sulpice in Paris (1875).
- Adolphe Alfred Tanquerey was born at Blainville in the Diocese of Coutances on May 1, 1854.
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On 21 February 1932 the seminary world lost one of the great spiritual writers of the early twentieth century, Sulpician Father Adolph TANQUEREY. Born in Blainville-sur-Mer, France in 1854, Father Tanquerey was ordained a priest in 1878 and entered the Society of Saint Sulpice the following year. He was then sent to Rome to study Thomistic theology and canon law, after which he served on the faculty of the Sulpician seminary in Rodez for a time.
In 1887 he was assigned to teach in the United States, as he was a Frenchman who was open to learning English and willing to adapt to the different orientation of seminarians and priests in the New World. Thus Father Tanquerey became a faculty member at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland, the first seminary in the U.S. (1791). It was during these years (1887-1902) that he developed his theological acumen and composed numerous works in spiritual and ascetical theology, moral theology, and dogmatic theology.
His numerous publications became stellar examples of the “manual tradition” of theology. These manuals, w
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Tanquerey, Adolphe Alfred
Sulpician theologian; b. Blainville, Normandy, May 1, 1854; d. Aix-en-Provence, Feb. 21, 1932. Tanquerey attended the College of Saint-Lô and studied for the priesthood at the diocesan seminary of Coutances (1873) and at Saint-Sulpice in Paris (1875). After graduate work at Rome (1876), he received his doctorate in theology in 1878. In the same year he was ordained and entered the Society of St. Sulpice. He was then assigned to the Sulpician novitiate, but this period was interrupted by his appointment to teach philosophy at Nantes from December 1878 to March 1879. After completing the novitiate he taught dogmatic theology in the seminary at Rodez (1879–87). In the summer of 1887 he went to St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md., where he taught dogmatic theology (1887–95) and canon law (1889–93). He played an important part in expanding the program of theological studies at St. Mary's. Recognizing the acute need for suitable textbooks in theology, he published his Synopsis theologiae dogmaticae (2 v., 1894) and in 1896 his Syn Adolphe Tanquerey, né le à Blainville-sur-Mer, mort le à Aix-en-Provence, est un prêtre catholique sulpicien français, professeur de droit canonique et de théologie dogmatique, auteur de travaux de spiritualité. Tanquerey commence ses études au collège de Saint-Lô puis et les poursuit à partir de 1873 au grand séminaire de Coutances, jusqu’en 1875, où il entre séminaire de Saint-Sulpice de Paris. Après deux années d’études à Rome, il obtient son diplôme de docteur en théologie en 1878 au Collegium Divi Thomae (Université pontificale Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, Angelicum)[1]. Ayant reçu le sacerdoce la même année, il devient membre de la Communauté de Saint-Sulpice. Il est ensuite professeur de théologie dogmatique et occupé divers postes. Il enseigne la théologie morale au séminaire et université Sainte-Marie de Baltimore (États-Unis) de 1887 à 1902 ; il en brièvement le vice-recteur en 1903 avant d'être rappelé en France[2]. Pendant cette période, il rédige le Synopsis theologiae dogmaticae et le Syno
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