Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Ledesma, Barthol. de
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Dominican · ?–1604
Life
Born Spain; died 1604. [Hurter, vol. III]
- Dominican; first professor (cathedraticus primarius) at the University of Mexico, then at Lima; Bishop of Oaxaca from 1579. [Hurter, vol. III]
- Wrote a Suma de casos de conciencia o de los sacramentos (Mexico, 1560; enlarged, Salamanca, 1585). [Hurter, vol. III]
Sources: H. Hurter, S.J., Nomenclator literarius theologiae catholicae, 3rd ed. (Innsbruck, 1903-1913), read on archive.org. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Ledesma, Barthol. de, O.P., Spanish, bishop of Oaxaca, or Antequera, in Mexico (d. 1604), wrote a collection of cases of conscience under the title Una suma de casos de conciencia o de los sacramentos, Mexico 1560, enlarged and revised at Salamanca 1585.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [**: weighty, probabilist] “Ledesma Bartholomaeus de, Spanish, of the Order of St. Dominic, Bishop of Antequera in America, died 1604.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXI, 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 2 of our authors | Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 342; Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
| “The most famous Dominican theologians of the time, Ledesma, Bañez, Alvarez, Ildephonsus, and others were all probabilists”Slater names a “Ledesma” among the most famous Dominican theologians of the time, all probabilists. The print does not say which: Merkelbach names both Pedro and Bartolomé among the Dominican probabilists, Prümmer (n. 342) names Bartolomé; Slater’s company (Báñez, Álvarez) is that of Pedro, Báñez’s defender in the controversy on grace | Slater, Short History, ¶ 88 |
| “Ledesma Bartholomaeus de, Spanish, of the Order of St. Dominic, Bishop of Antequera in America, died 1604.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XXI |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
Each read in its full passage; the words quoted are the author's own. Where several authors say the same thing, one is quoted and the others follow “in nearly the same words”; point at a name to see his words.
| “Bartholomew of Ledesma: summa of cases of conscience”Tanquerey names his summa of cases among the Dominican works | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 45 |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).