Joseph de Tonquédec, S.J. (December 27, 1868 – November 21, 1962) was a widely known Jesuit Roman Catholic priest and author.
Father Tonquédec was born in Morlaix, France on December 27, 1868. He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1899 and his doctorate in theology in 1905. He was the professor of philosophy at Collège St. Grégoire, Tours, from 1899 to 1901. He was the official exorcist of Paris[1] from 1924 to 1962.[2][3] Father Gabriele Amorth, in his 1994 memoir An Exorcist Tells His Story, cites Father de Tonquédec, referring to him as a "famous French exorcist."[4]
Father de Tonquédec was an intellectual adversary of the French philosopher Maurice Blondel.[5] His writings on theology, philosophy, and literature have been translated into languages including Italian, Spanish, Latin, and English; see, for example, his "Some Aspects of Satan's Activity in this World."[6]
Tonquédec died on November 21, 1962, in France.
Select Bibliography
edit- G. K. Chesterton, ses idées et son caractère. Paris: Nouvelle Librairie nationale, 1920.
- Deux études sur "La Pensée" de M. Maurice Blondel. La doctrine de la connaissance. La question du surnaturel. Avec un appendice sur le désir naturel de la vision de Dieu. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne, 1936. Reprinted as ISBN 9782701004549.
- Introduction à l'étude du merveilleux et du miracle. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne, 1938 (3e édition). Reprinted 2013; ISBN 9782701019871.
- Les maladies nerveuses ou mentales et les manifestations diaboliques. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne, 1938. Reprinted 1997; ISBN 9782701004556.
References
edit- ^ Moreno, Antonio, O.P. "Demons According to St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross." Spirituality Today: A Dominican Quarterly Journal. Fall 1991 (Vol. 43, Issue No. 3), pp. 258–270. "Antonio Moreno OP: Demons According to St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross". Archived from the original on 2007-01-02. Retrieved 2006-12-28.
- ^ Sluhovsky, Moshe. “The Devil in the Convent.” The American Historical Review, Vol. 107, No. 5 (December 2002): pp. 1379–1411. doi:10.1086/532851.
- ^ "The Devil in the Convent," History Cooperative Archived 2007-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Amorth, Gabriele. An Exorcist Tells His Story. Translated from the Italian (Un esorcista raconta) by Nicoletta V. Mackenzie. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999. ISBN 9780898707106.
- ^ "They Think They’ve Won, Part 2: The New Philosophy Of Maurice Blondel," translated from the periodical Sì Sì No No, October 1993 No. 4: "From Courrier de Rome April 1993 … translated from the Italian [by] Fr. Du Chalard." English-language edition from Kansas City, Missouri: Angelus Press.
- ^ Tonquédec, Joseph de. "Some Aspects of Satan's Activity in this World," in Satan, ed. by Père Bruno de Jesus-Marie, O.C.D. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1952. OCLC Number: 1746511. Original (French) edition Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1948. OCLC Number: 607827399. See also Soundings in Satanism, ed. by F.J. Sheed. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1972. ISBN 9780836205077.
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