Turrianus, Ludov. (Luis de Torres)

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Jesuit · 1552–1635

In the Index: Torres

Dates differ: Prümmer 1552–1635; Haringer 1562–1635.

Life

Born Alcalá de Henares (Haringer 1562; Prümmer 1552); died 13 February 1635. [Hurter, vol. III, no. 371, col. 883; Haringer's index of writers, p. XXXI; Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]

Luis de Torres (Turrianus), Jesuit; taught philosophy and moral and scholastic theology for about forty years. [Hurter, vol. III, no. 371, col. 883]
A theologian of great name, according to Gener (Hurter prints 'Genér'); but he is criticized for marking opinions contrary to his own too readily as improbable or pernicious. [Hurter, vol. III, no. 371, col. 883]
Published Disputationes on the II-II of St. Thomas: de fide, spe, caritate et prudentia (Lyons, 1617) and de iustitia (1621); a treatise on grace in 16 opuscula (Lyons, 1623); Opuscula theologica (1625); a Summa theologiae moralis (Lyons, 1634) and Disputationes de poenitentia (Madrid, 1628) (Prümmer). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors; Hurter, vol. III, no. 371, col. 883]

Sources: H. Hurter, S.J., Nomenclator literarius theologiae catholicae, 3rd ed. (Innsbruck, 1903-1913), read on archive.org; Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site). Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.

In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index

“Turrianus, Ludov. (Luis de Torres), S.J., Spanish (1552-1635), published several works regarding moral theology, for example Disputationes in II-II S. Thomae, 2 folio volumes, Lyons 1617; Summa theologiae moralis, in folio, there, 1634; Disputationes de poenitentia, 2 folio volumes, Madrid 1628.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
“Turrianus Aloysius, Spanish, S.J. (On I-II of St. Thomas. On Penance. On Virtues and Vices), born 1562, died 1635.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXXI, sign read on the page)

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“Louis Torres (Turrianus, + 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

No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).