Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Diego Alvarez
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Dominican · ?–1635
In the Index: Alvarez
Dates differ: Prümmer ?–1635; Haringer ?–1640.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Alvarez, Didacus, O.P., Spanish, archbishop of Trani in Apulia (d. 1635), a most illustrious theologian, was summoned to the so-called "Congregation de auxiliis." Besides other works he wrote: De auxiliis divinae gratiae, Disputationes theologicae in primam secundae S. Thomae. Cf. Quetif and Echard, Scriptores Ord. Praed. II, 482.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [**: weighty, probabilist] “Alvarez Didacus, Spanish, Dominican, professor of theology in his homeland, then at Rome, afterwards Archbishop of Trani, a very celebrated man (says St. Alphonsus) on account of the disputations defended by him in favor of predetermining grace, died 1640.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XII, sign read on the page)
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
Every report quoted in the author's own words and linked to its place; point at a name to see his words. Haringer's signs give St. Alphonsus's judgment as Haringer found it in St. Alphonsus's works (his notice, Gury-Ballerini, 1884, p. XI); a sign on a writer the 1884 editor added to the list is the editor's own, and is said to be his.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by 3 of our authors | Bucceroni, Commentarii, n. 108; Slater, Short History, ¶ 88; Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
| “Alvarez Didacus, Spanish, Dominican, professor of theology in his homeland, then at Rome, afterwards Archbishop of Trani, a very celebrated man (says St. Alphonsus) on account of the disputations defended by him in favor of predetermining grace, died 1640.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XII |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
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| “Didacus Alvarez (+ 1635)”Koch-Preuss name him among the best-known moralists from the close of the sixteenth century | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
| “is chiefly known as a commentator of St. Thomas and defender of the Thomistic teaching against the Molinists” | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
Works Our Authors Used
- Jacobus Alvarez de Paz, S.J. Opera spiritualia; 3 tomes fol. (Lyon, 1608). — Marc's list
In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
“Diego Alvarez”, vol. 1, by Arthur McMahon. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).
Spanish theologian, b. At Medina de Rio-Seco, Old Castile, about 1550; d. At Trani, Kingdom of Naples, 1635. He entered the Dominican Order in his native city, and taught theology for twenty years in the Spanish cities of Burgos, Trianos, Plasencia, and Valladolid, and for ten years (1596-1606) at the Minerva, in Rome. Shortly after his arrival in Rome (7 November, 1596) he presented to Clement VIII a memorial requesting him to examine the work "Concordia liberi Arbitrii", by Ludovicus Molina, S.J., which, upon it publication in 1588, had given rise to bitter controversy. Before the Congregation (Congregatio de Auxiliis), appointed by the Pope to settle the dispute, he defended the Thomistic doctrines of grace, predestination, etc., alone for three years, and, thereafter, conjointly with Thomas de Lemos, O.P., to whom he gave the first place, until the suspension of the Congregation (1606). He was appointed, 19 March, 1606, by Paul V, to the Archbishopric of Trani, where he passed the remainder of his life.
Besides (1) a commentary on Isaias, and (2) a manual for preachers, he published: (3) "De auxiliis divinæ gratiæ et humani arbitrii viribus et libertate, ac legitimâ ejus cum efficaciâ eorumdem auxiliorum concordiâ libri XII" (Rome, 1610; Lyons, 1620; Douai, 1635); (4) "Responsionum ad objectiones adversus concordiam liberi arbitrii cum divinâ, præscientiâ, providentiâ, et prædestinatione, atque cum efficaciâ prævenientis gratiæ, prout a S. Thomâ et Thomistis defenditur et explicatur, Libri IV" (Trani, 1622; Lyons, 1622); (5) "De origine Pelagianæ hæresis et ejus progressu et damnatione per plures summos pontifices et concilia factâ Historia ex annalibus Card. Baronii et aliis probatis auctoribus collecta" (Trani, 1629); (6) "Responsionum liber ultimus hoc titulo: Opus præclarum nunquam hâctenus editum, in quo argumentis validissimis concordia liberi arbitrii cum divinâ præscientiâ, prædestinatione, et efficaciâ gratiæ prævenientis ad mentem S. Thomæ et omnium defenditur et explicatur" (Douai, 1635); (7) "Operis de auxiliis divinæ gratiæ et humani arbitrii viribus et libertate, ac legitimâ ejus cum efficaciæ eorumdem auxiliorum concordiâ summa, in IV libros distincta" (Lyons, 1620; Cologne, 1621; Trani, 1625); (8) "De incarnatione divini verbi disputationes LXXX; in quibus explicantur et defenduntur, quæ in tertiâ parte summæ theologicæ docet S. Thomas a Q. 1 ad 24" (Lyons, 1614; Rome, 1615; Cologne, 1622); (9) "Disputationes theologicæ in primam secundæ S. Thomæ, in quibus præcipua omina quæ adversus doctrinam ejusdem et communem Thomistarum a diversis auctoribus impugnantur, juxta legitimum sensum præceptoris angelici explicantur et defenduntur" (Trani, 1617; Cologne, 1621).
Sources: ECHARD, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum (Paris, 1721), II, 481; UGHELLI, Italia Sacra (Venice, 1720), VII, 1240; HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1892), I, 263; H. SERRY, Historia Congregationum de Auxiliis (Antwerp, 1709).