Enrique Henríquez

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Jesuit · 1536–1608

In the Index: Henriquez

In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index

“Henriquez, Henricus, S.J., Spanish (1536-1608), wrote Summa theologiae moralis, Salamanca 1591 and often afterward. He is very often cited by St. Alphonsus.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
[**: weighty, probabilist] “Henriquez Henricus, Portuguese, S.J., taught theology at Cordoba and Salamanca, where he had the celebrated Father Suarez as a disciple (Summa of Moral Theology), born 1536, died 1608.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XX, sign read on the page)

His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It

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Probabilist
“Henriquez Henricus, Portuguese, S.J., taught theology at Cordoba and Salamanca, where he had the celebrated Father Suarez as a disciple (Summa of Moral Theology), born 1536, died 1608.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist)	Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XX

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“Henry Henriquez (+ 1608)”Koch-Preuss name him among the best-known moralists from the close of the sixteenth century

Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology

In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

“Enrique Henríquez”, vol. 7, by Anthony Maas. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).

Noted Jesuit theologian, b. at Oporto, 1536; d. at Tivoli, 28 January, 1608. At the age of sixteen, in 1552, he entered the Society of Jesus, and soon became celebrated for his philosophical and theological erudition. He taught both these branches at the Jesuit colleges of Cordova and Salamanca; in the latter place he numbered Francisco Suárez and Gregory of Valencia among his pupils. In 1593 he left the Society of Jesus and entered the Order of St. Dominic, but soon returned to his former companions. Father Alcazar (Hist. Prov. Tolet., I, 204) gives the following account of this incident. After Henríquez had printed in the preface of one of his theological works some passages not approved by the censors, Father Acquaviva ordered him to tear out the page containing these paragraphs. Henríquez felt so disturbed over this punishment that he obtained permission from the holy father to leave the society and enter the Dominican Order. It was Gregory of Valencia who advised him to return to his former associates. Father Henríquez is especially noted for two theological works: (1) The first part of his "Theologiæ Moralis Summa" was published at Salamanca in 1591, the second in 1593; the work appeared again at Venice, in 1597, and 1600; at Mentz, in 1613, under the title "Summa Theologiæ Moralis libri XV" etc. It was forbidden by decree of 7 Aug., 1603, donec corrigatur, because the author allowed confession (but not absolution) by way of letter, and held opinions too unfavorable to the rights of the Church. In the "Summa", Henríquez treats only of the end of man, of the sacraments, and of ecclesiastical censures and irregularities; but he manages to find an opportunity of declaring himself against Molina's scientia media; he defends the Dominican theory of physical predetermination, and of a predestination antecedent to the Divine foresight of our future merits. St. Alphonsus highly esteems the authority of Henríquez on moral questions, an opinion fully shared by Doujat in his "Prænot. canon.", V. xv. (2) Henríquez's second work is entitled "De pontificis romani clave, libri VI". It was published at Salamanca in 1593, but nearly all its copies were burnt by the Apostolic nuncio of Madrid on account of its allowing the king too much power over ecclesiastics. It is said that only three or four copies have been preserved among the rarities of the Escorial. The subjects treated by Henríquez in his second work are: the power and election of the Roman pontiff; the authority of the councils; the question of law. The rarity of Father Henríquez's second work is the reason why some biographers consider its treatises as part of his "Theolgiæ Moralis Summa".

Sources: Hurter, Nomenclator; Sommervogel, Bibl. de la C. de J., IV (Brussels and Paris, 1893), 275 sq.; Morgott in Kirchenlex., s.v.