Flashcards: Spanish Roman Catholic theologians

Francisco Suárez (5 January 1548 – 25 September 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement, and generally regarded among the greatest scholastics after Thomas Aquinas.

John of Ávila (Spanish: Juan de Ávila; 6 January 1499– 10 May 1569) was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church.

Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975; also known as Saint Josemaría, José María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born José María Mariano Escriba Albás) was a Roman Catholic priest from Spain who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity.

Joseph Saenz de Aguirre (24 March 1630 – 19 August 1699) was a Cardinal, and learned Spanish Benedictine.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola, SJ (Basque: Ignazio Loiolakoa, Spanish: Ignacio de Loyola; c. October 23, 1491 – July 31, 1556) was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and, on 19 April 1541, became its first Superior General.

José de Carabantes (Caravantes) (1628 in Aragon – 1694) was a Spanish Capuchin theologian.

Saint John of the Cross (Spanish: San Juan de la Cruz; 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest who was born at Fontiveros, Old Castile.

Luis de Molina (September 1535, Cuenca, Spain – 12 October 1600, Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and a staunch Scholastic defender of 'human liberty' in the Divine grace and human liberty controversy of the Renaissance (Molinism).

Raimon Panikkar-Alemany (November 2, 1918 – August 26, 2010; also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of inter-religious dialogue.

Bartolomé de Medina (1527-1580) was a Spanish theologian born in Medina de Rioseco, Spain.

Xavier Zubiri (Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain, 4 December 1898 – Madrid, 21 September 1983) was a Spanish philosopher.

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, May 23, 1606 in Madrid — September 7 or 8, 1682 in Vigevano) was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician and writer.

Francisco de Vitoria (or Victoria), OP (c. 1483, Burgos or Vitoria-Gasteiz – 12 August 1546, Salamanca), was a Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian and jurist.

Pedro de Soto (1493-1563) was a Spanish Dominican theologian.

Francisco Torres known as Turrianus (c. 1509 – 21 November 1584), was a Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist.

José de Sigüenza (Sigüenza, 1544 - El Escorial, 22 May 1606) was a historian, poet and Spanish theologian.

Miguel de Medina (born at Belalcazar, Spain, 1489; died at Toledo, May, 1578) was a Spanish Franciscan theologian.

Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578–1641) was a Basque philosopher and theologian.

Diego de Estella (Latin: Didacus Stella) was a 16th-century Spanish Franciscan mystic and theologian, born 1524 in Estella, Navarra, died 1578 in Salamanca.

Agostino Bernal (born at Magallon in Aragon in 1587; died at Saragossa, 13 September 1642) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.

John de Pineda (born in Seville, 1558; died there, 27 January 1637) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and exegete.

Crisóstomo Henríquez (1594 – 23 December 1632) was a Spanish Cistercian monk and scholar of church history, who belonged to the Spanish Congregation of that Order, and who worked in the Spanish Netherlands.

Antonio Escobar y Mendoza (1589 – 4 July 1669) was a Spanish nobleman who is best known for his Catholic teachings.

Ignacio Ellacuría, S.

Fernando Castro Palao (b. at León in 1581; d. at Medina, 1 December 1633) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.

Fernando de las Infantas (1534–ca. 1610) was a Spanish nobleman, composer and theologian.

Fernando Ocáriz Braña is Vicar General of Opus Dei.

Gaspar Hurtado (b. at Mondéjar, Guadalajara, Spain, in 1575; d. at Alcalá de Henares, 5 August 1647) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.

Gregory of Valencia (Spanish: Gregorio de Valencia) (c. 1550 – April 25, 1603) was a Spanish humanist and scholar who was a professor at the University of Ingolstadt.

Juan Cardenas (b. at Seville, 1613; d. 6 June 1684) was a Spanish Jesuit moral theologian and author.

Juan Bautista de Lezana (23 November 1586 – 29 March 1659) was a Spanish Carmelite theologian.

Juan de Celaya (Valencia, c.1490 - 6 December 1558) was a Spanish mathematician, physicist, cosmologist, philosopher and theologian.

Juan de Dicastillo (28 December 1584 in Naples – 6 March 1653 in Ingolstadt) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.

Juan de Medina (1490–1547) was a Spanish theologian, and Spain's ambassador to Rome.

Melchor Cano (1509? – 30 September 1560) was a Spanish Scholastic theologian.

Martín de Azpilcueta (Azpilikueta in Basque) (13 December 1491 – 1 June 1586), or Doctor Navarrus, was an important Basque canonist and theologian in his time, and an early economist, the first to develop monetarist theory.

Pedro Abarca (1619 – 1 October 1693) was a Jesuit theologian.

Martin Delrio (Latin: Martinus Antonius Delrio; Spanish: Martín Antonio del Río; French: Martin-Antoine del Rio; 17 May 1551 – 19 October 1608) was a Jesuit theologian, born in the Low Countries but of Spanish descent.

Francisco de Toledo (4 October 1532 in Cordoba (Spain) - 14 September 1596 in Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and theologian, Biblical exegete and professor at the Roman College.

Tomás Sánchez (1550 – 19 May 1610) was a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit and famous casuist.

Francis(co) de Lugo (1580–1652) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.

Luis de Lossada (1681–1748) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosophical writer.

Olegario González de Cardedal is a Spanish Catholic theologian and author.

Gabriel Vasquez (born in Belmonte, Cuenca, 1549 or 1551; died in Alcalá de Henares, 23 September 1604) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.

Juan Maldonado (Maldonation, Maldonation) (1533 in Casas de Reina, Llerena, Extremadura – 5 January 1583 in Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and exegete.

Alfonso de Castro (1495 in Zamora, Spain – February 11, 1558 in Brussels, Belgium), known also as Alphonsus a Castro, was a Franciscan theologian and jurist.

Teresa Forcades i Vila, O.

Bartolomé Carranza (1503 – 2 May 1576), Spanish priest of the Dominican Order, theologian and Archbishop of Toledo, sometimes called de Miranda or de Carranza y Miranda, who spent much of his later life imprisoned on (eventually disproven) charges of heresy.

Domingo Báñez (29 February 1528, Valladolid – 22 October 1604, Medina del Campo) was a Spanish Dominican and Scholastic theologian.

Julián Carrón (Navaconcejo, February 25, 1950) is a Spanish Catholic priest, and theologian.

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (11 June 1494 – 17 November 1573) was a Spanish Renaissance humanist, philosopher, theologian, and proponent of colonial slavery.

Francisco Ribera (1537–1591) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian, identified with the Futurist Christian eschatological view.

Segundo Montes, S.

Diego de Zúñiga of Salamanca (sometimes Latinized as Didacus a Stunica) (1536–1597) was an Augustinian Hermit and academic.

Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.

Tomaso Malvenda (1566 – 7 May 1628) was a Spanish Dominican exegete and historical critic.

Pablo d'Ors (born 1963) is a Spanish priest, theologian and writer.

Benedict Pereira (also Pereyra, Benet Perera, Benet Pererius) (March 4, 1536 – 6 March 1610) was a Spanish Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and exegete.

Luis Galiana y Cervera (8 June 1740 – 1771) was a Spanish Dominican theologian, philologist and writer.

Mateo Aimerich (1715–1799) was a philologist born in Bordils, Province of Girona, Spain.

Venerable Luis de la Puente (11 November 1554 – 16 February 1624) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and ascetic writer.

Francisco Arias (1533 – 15 May 1605) was a Spanish Catholic author, known as a writer of ascetical treatises.

Antonio Comellas y Cluet (born in Berga, in Catalonia, 16 Jan., 1832; died there, 3 June 1884) was a philosopher.

Francesc Xavier Butinyà i Hospital (Banyoles, April 16, 1834 – Tarragona, December 18, 1899) was a Catalan missionary Jesuit, teacher and writer and the founder of two religious congregations of Sisters.

Diego Ruiz de Montoya (b. at Seville, 1562; d. there 15 March 1632) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.

Luis de Montesinos (1552 – 9 October 1620) was a Spanish theologian.

Tomás de Lemos (Thomas) (Ribadavia, 1555 – Rome, 23 August 1629) was a Spanish Dominican theologian and controversialist.

Jon Sobrino, S.J.