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.^[1]

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);^[2]
• De sacramentis disputations scholastic & Morales: torus terminus, in quo gaiter de sacramento et contractu matrimonio et de sponsalibus^[3]
• Tractatus duo de juramento, perjurio, et adjuratione, necnon de censuris et poenis ecclesiasticis (Antwerp, 1662)^[4]
• Tractatus de incarnatione (Antwerp, 1642).