- Veit Erbermann
Veit Erbermann (or Ebermann) (born
25 May ,1597 , at Rendweisdorff, inBavaria ; died8 April ,1675 ) was a German theologian and controversialist. [CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05516a.htm|title=Veit Erbermann]He was born of
Lutheran parents, but at an early age he became a Roman Catholic, and on 30 May, 1620, entered theSociety of Jesus . After completing his ecclesiastical studies he taughtphilosophy and
Scholastic theology, first at Mainz and afterwards at Würzburg. Subsequently he was appointedrector of the pontifical seminary atFulda , which position he held for seven years.His theological attainments and zeal for the Church brought him into conflict with many of the leading Reformers of his time. He watched with a keen interest what in
Protestant theological circles is known as "the syncretistic controversy", and in his frequent encounters with its chief representatives proved himself an able champion ofCatholicism .Works
His principal works are:
*"Anatomia Callixtina" (Mainz, 1644)
*"Irenicon Catholicum" (2 vols., Mainz, 1645-46), in which he examines critically the religious tenets ofGeorge Calixtus
*"Interrogationes apologeticae" (Würzburg, 1651)
*"Examen Examinis Conringiani" (Würzburg, 1644), an expostion of the infallibility of the Church againstHermann Conring
*"Anti-Musaeus, i.e. parallela Ecclessiae verae et falsae" (Würzburg, 1659), *"Anti-Musaei pars altera" (Würzburg, 1661)
*"Asserta theologica de fide divina" (Würzburg, 1665).References
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