Juan de Dicastillo
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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.
Works
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);
- "Tractatus duo de juramento, perjurio, et adjuratione, necnon de censuris et poenis ecclesiasticis" (Antwerp, 1662);
- "Tractatus de incarnatione" (Antwerp, 1642).
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Juan de Dicastillo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator;
- Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la c. de J.,III, col. 49;
- Langhorst in Kirchenlexikon, s.v.