Juan de Dicastillo (28 December 1584 – 6 March 1653) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian. He was born in Naples. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 1600, and was professor of theology for twenty-five years at Toledo, Murcia, and Vienna. He died in Ingolstadt.[1]

Works edit

In moral theology, Dicastillo followed the principles of probabilism. His principal works are:

  • De justitia et jure ceterisque virtutibus cardinalibus libriduo (Antwerp, 1641)
  • De Sacramentis in genere disputationes scholastic et morales (Antwerp, 1646–52);[2]
  • De sacramentis disputations scholastic & Morales: torus terminus, in quo gaiter de sacramento et contractu matrimonio et de sponsalibus[3]
  • Tractatus duo de juramento, perjurio, et adjuratione, necnon de censuris et poenis ecclesiasticis (Antwerp, 1662)[4]
  • Tractatus de incarnatione (Antwerp, 1642).

References edit

  1. ^ "Juan de Dicastillo" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. 1908.
  2. ^ Dicastillo (S.I.), Juan de (1652). Ioannis de Dicastillo ... De sacramentis disputationes scholasticae [et] morales: In quo agitur de sacramentis in genere, baptismo et confirmatione eucharistia et sacrificio missae, ordine et extrema unctione. Tomus primus (in Latin). prostat apud Iacobum Meursium.
  3. ^ Dicastillo, Juan de (1652). Ioannis de Dicastillo ... De sacramentis disputationes scholasticae & morales: tomus tertius, in quo agitur de sacramento et contractu matrimonii et de sponsalibus (in Latin). Apud Iacobum Meursium.
  4. ^ Dicastillo (S.I.), Juan de (1662). Ioannis de Dicastillo ... Tractatus duo de iuramento periurio et adiuratione, nec non De censuris et poenis ecclesiasticis (in Latin). apud Iacobum Meursium.
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