François Lamy

François Lamy

François Lamy (born in 1636 at Montireau in the Department of Eure-et-Loir; died 11 April1711, at the Abbey of St-Denis near Paris) was a French Benedictine ascetical and apologetic writer, of the Congregation of St-Maur. [CathEncy|title=François Lamy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08772a.htm]

Life

While fighting a duel, he was saved from a fatal sword-thrust by a book of the Rule of St. Benedict which he carried in his pocket. Seeing the finger of God in this, he took the Benedictine habit at the monastery of St-Remi at Reims in 1658. Shortly after his elevation to the priesthood he was appointed subprior of St-Faron at Meaux, but a year later resigned this position.

During 1672-5 he taught philosophy at the monasteries of Mont St-Quentin and St-Médard in Soissons. He was the first of the Maurists to teach the Cartesian system of philosophy.

In 1676 he came to St-Germain-des-Prés near Paris where he taught theology until 1679. The general chapter of 1687 appointed him prior of Rebais in the Diocese of Meaux, but he was ordered by the king to resign his office in 1689. The remainder of his life he spent in literary pursuits at St-Denis.

Works

He was one of the most famous writers of his times and was an intimate friend of Bossuet. Of his twenty printed works the following are the most important:

*"Vérité évidente de la Religion chrétienne" (Paris, 1694)
*"Le Nouvel Athéisme Renversé, ou réfutation du système de Spinoza" (Paris, 1696; 2nd ed., Brussels, 1711)
*"Sentiments de piété sur la profession religieuse" (Paris, 1697)
*"De la Connaissance de soi-même" (6 vols., ibid., 1694-8; 2nd ed., 1700), which raised a controversy between the author and Malebranche concerning the disinterested love of God
*"L'incrédule amené à la Religion par la Raison" (ibid., 1710)
*"De la Connaissance et de l'Amour de Dieu" (ibid., 1712)
*"Lettre d'un théologien à un de ses amis" (ibid., 1699)
*"Plainte de l'apologiste des Bénédictins à MM. les prélats de France" (ibid., 1699).

In the last two treatises the author defends the Maurist edition of the works of Augustine of Hippo against the Jansenists and the Jesuits.

References

*Tassin, "Histoire litteraire de la Congregation de St-Maur" (Brussels, 1770), 351-67
*Le Cerf, "Bibliotheque historique et critique des auteurs de la Congregation de St-Maur" (La Haye, 1726), 185-95.

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