Juan de Dicastillo

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);
• De sacramentis disputations scholastic & Morales: torus terminus, in quo gaiter de sacramento et contractu matrimonio et de sponsalibus
• Tractatus duo de juramento, perjurio, et adjuratione, necnon de censuris et poenis ecclesiasticis (Antwerp, 1662)
• Tractatus de incarnatione (Antwerp, 1642).

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Juan de Dicastillo — Theologian, b. of Spanish parents at Naples, 28 December, 1584; d. at Ingolstadt 6 March, 1653. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 1600, and was professor of theology for twenty-five years at Toledo, Muricia, and Vienna. In moral questions, Dicastillo followed the principles of the probabilists. His principal works are: "De justiti 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 p nis ecclesiasticis" (Antwerp, 1662); "Tractatus de incarnatione" (Antwerp, 1642).

Hurter, Nomenclator; Sommervogel, Biblioth que de la c. de J.,III, col. 49; Langhorst in Kirchenlex., s.v.

Bibliography

Attribution

• Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator;
• Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, III, col. 49;
• Langhorst in Kirchenlexikon, s.v.