Jacques-Hyacinthe Serry

Jacques-Hyacinthe Serry (1659-1738) was a French Dominican Thomist theologian, controversialist and historian.

At the University of Padua from 1698, he taught theology based more closely on Biblical and patristic authority [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11387a.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: University of Padua ] ] .

Under the pseudonym Augustinus Leblanc, he wrote the standard history "Historiae Congregationum de Auxiliis Divinae Gratiae" of the Congregatio de Auxiliis, and the Dominican-Jesuit controversy on grace that led to its being set up. The work itself is partisan, awarding a Dominican victory based on an unpublished text [E. M. Mijnlieff, "The Pursuit of a Phantom" p. 383, in Mathijs Lamberigts, Leo Kenis (editors) "L'Augustinisme à l'ancienne Faculté de théologie de Louvain" (1994).] , but well-documented [ [http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/dominicans/ashdom07.htm Ashley/Dominicans: 7 Survivors 1700s ] ] . It was attacked by the Jesuit Livinus de Meyer, writing as Theodorus Eleutherius, in 1705, in his "Historiae controversiarum de divinae gratiae auxiliis".

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