Alphonsian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Alphons(us) + -ian.
Adjective[edit]
Alphonsian (not comparable)
- (Catholicism) Of or relating to Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), Italian Catholic bishop, writer, and theologian.
- 2008, Charles E. Curran, “The Nineteenth Century”, in Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 6:
- Four characteristics of nineteenth-century European moral theology stand out—the dominance of the manualist tradition, the general acceptance of the Alphonsian approach, a growing ultramontanism stressing the primacy and central role of the papacy in the Church, […]