George Tyrrell was an Anglo-Irish Catholic priest and a highly controversial theologian and scholar.
28 Facts About George Tyrrell
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George Tyrrell was born on 6 February 1861 in Dublin, Ireland.
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George Tyrrell was brought up as an Anglican and around 1869 he attended Rathmines School, near Dublin.
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George Tyrrell was educated from 1873 at Midleton College, an institution affiliated with the Church of Ireland, but his mother had difficulty affording the fees and he left early.
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On Palm Sunday, George Tyrrell wandered into St Etheldreda's, a Catholic church on Ely Place.
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George Tyrrell immediately applied to join the Society of Jesus, but the provincial superior advised him to wait a year.
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George Tyrrell spent the interim teaching at Jesuit schools in Cyprus and Malta.
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George Tyrrell joined the Jesuits in 1880 and was sent to the novitiate at Manresa House.
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George Tyrrell later stated that he believed he was more inclined to the Benedictine spirituality.
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George Tyrrell then went to St Beuno's College, in Wales, to take up his theological studies.
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George Tyrrell then began to have serious conflicts with his superiors over the traditional Jesuit approach to teaching philosophy.
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George Tyrrell admired Aquinas, but he rejected the Scholastic approach as inadequate.
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George Tyrrell became convinced that the Jesuits were not teaching the work of Aquinas himself, but rather the narrow interpretation of it introduced by Jesuit theologian Francisco Suarez.
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In 1896, George Tyrrell was transferred to the Jesuit House on Farm Street in London.
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George Tyrrell first met Friedrich von Hugel in October 1897 and they became close friends.
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George Tyrrell had the occasion to review some works by Wilfrid Ward, and for a time, came to share Ward's view of moderate liberalism.
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Between 1891 and 1906, George Tyrrell published more than twenty articles in Catholic periodicals, many of them in the United States.
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George Tyrrell "preferred to admit that the Christian doctrine of hell as simply a very great mystery, one difficult to reconcile with any just appreciation of the concept of an all-loving God".
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George Tyrrell argued that the rationalist approach of the Scholastics was not applicable to matters of faith.
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George Tyrrell was assigned to a small mission in Richmond, where he deeply appreciated the peace and quiet.
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George Tyrrell was critical both of the Catholic neo-Scholasticism and of the Liberal Protestant scholarship of the day.
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George Tyrrell was the only Jesuit to be expelled from the society in the twentieth century until a subsequent Father General, Pedro Arrupe, expelled the Dutch priest Huub Oosterhuis in 1969.
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George Tyrrell contributed two letters to The Times in which he strongly criticized that encyclical.
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George Tyrrell accused Pascendi of equating Catholic doctrine with Scholastic theology and of having a completely naive view of doctrinal development.
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George Tyrrell furthermore asserted that the encyclical tried to show the "modernist" that he was not a Catholic, but succeeded only in showing that he was not a Scholastic.
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Unlike Alfred Loisy, George Tyrrell never saw his case come up before the Congregation of Index or the Holy Office.
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George Tyrrell's fate rested in the hands of the Cardinal Secretary of State, Rafael Merry del Val, who collaborated closely with Bishop Amigo.
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George Tyrrell was given extreme unction on his deathbed in 1909, but as he refused to abjure his modernist views was denied burial in a Catholic cemetery.