Juan de Dicastillo

Juan de Dicastillo (b. of Spanish parents at Naples, 28 December 1584; d. at Ingolstadt, 6 March 1653) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian. 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.

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.