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Jean-Francois Baltus

Jean-Francois Baltus (8 June 1667 – 9 March 1743) was a French Jesuit theologian.

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Life

Balthus was born at Metz and entered the Society of Jesus on 21 November 1682. He taught humanities at Dijon; rhetoric at Pont-a-Mousson; and Scripture, Hebrew, and theology at Strasburg, where he was also rector of the university. In 1717, he was general censor of books at Rome, and later rector of Chalon, Dijon, Metz, Pont-a-Mousson, and Chalons. He died at Reims.

Works

He left several works of Christian apologetics. Reponse a l'historie des oracles de M. de Fontenelle (Strasburg, 1707), was a critical treatise on the oracles of paganism, on which Fontenelle had written in Histoire des oracles. It was in refutation of Antonius van Dale's theory and in defense of the Fathers of the Church. He followed it in 1708 by Suite de la reponse a l'historie des oracles. According to Jonathan Israel:

Others were:

  • Defense des S. Peres accuses de platonisme (Paris, 1711); this is a refutation of Platonisme devoile, a work of the Protestant minister Jacques Souverain of Poitiers.
  • Jugement des SS, Peres sur la morale de la philosophie paienne (Strasburg, 1719).
  • La religion chretienne prouvee par l'accomplissement des propheties de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament suivant la methode des SS. Peres (Paris, 1728).
  • Defense des propheties de la religion chretienne (Paris, 1737).

    • To these may be added a funeral oration on the Most Rev. Peter Creagh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (Strasburg, 1705), "The Acts of St, Balaam, Martyr", and the "Life of St. Frebonia, Virgin and Martyr" (Dijon, 1720 and 1721 respectively).

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    Jean-Francois Baltus Wikipedia
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