Champs, Etienne Agard de
A distinguished theologian and author, born at Bourges, 2 September, 1613; died at Paris (according to De Backer, at La Fleche), 31 July, 1701. He entered the Jesuit noviciate in 1630, and later, in Paris, was professor of rhetoric, philosophy, and theology; he was rector at Rennes, thrice rector at Paris, head of the professed house, twice provincial of France, and once provincial of Lyons. Jansenism, the one topic of debate in the France of his day, is the theme of all his books. Writing under the name of Richard Antonius, he composed: “Defensio Censurae Sacrae Facultatis Parisiensis — seu Disputatio Theologica de libero arbitrio” (Paris, 1645). This solid treatise was well received, and went through five editions in two years. It called forth a reply from Vincent Lenis in his “Theriaca” (Paris, 1648), which occasioned the “Antonii Ricardi Theologi Responsio ad objectiones Vincentianas” (Paris, 1648). He defends the Sorbonne in his “De Haeresi Janseniana” (1654). Among his other works the best known is “Le secret du Jansenisme découvert et refute par un Docteur Catholique” (Paris, 1651).
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Champs, Etienne Agard de
a French Jesuit and theologian, was born at Bourges in 1613; He taught theology in the College of Rheims and at Paris, was three times provincial and deputy of his order to the papal court, and died at La Fibche, July 31, 1701, leaving Disputatio de Libero Abitrio, etc. (Paris, 1642, 12mo; 1646): Responsio ad Theriacam. Vincentii Lenis (ibid. 1648; Cologne, 1650): Le Secret du Jansenisme Decouvert (1651): De Haeresi Jansensiana (Paris, 1654, etc.): Quaestio Facti (ibid. 1660): Sanctus Augustianus Theologorum Aristoteles (published in the Selectce Orationes Panegyricae Societatis Jesu, Lyons, 1667): Neuf Lettres sur la Grace, Addresses au Prince de Conti et Suivies de Reponses (Cologne, 1689, 12mo). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gnrale, s.v.