Balthazar_Francolini

Balthazar Francolini

Balthazar Francolini

Attritionist theologian

Balthazar Francolini (1650–1709) was a Jesuit theologian. He was born in Fermo and became a professor of philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome.[1] He was an attritionist, holding that imperfect contrition (attritio) was sufficient to receive the sacrament. He opposed the more rigorous heresy of Jansenism, writing Clericus Romanus Contra Nimium Rigorismum Munitus in 1707.[2][1]

References

  1. [1]
    Caraman, Philip (1981). University of the Nations: The Story of the Gregorian University with Its Associated Institutes, the Biblical and Oriental, 1551-1962. Paulist Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780809123551.
  2. [2]
    Biographie Universelle Classique, Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1829, p. 1134



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