The hinc et nunc of moral theology

Francisco de Vitoria’s lesson and the missionary experience

Bibliographic Data

ID12413674
AuthorsOsvaldo F Pardo (University of Connecticut, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume27
Issue1
Pages2-29
Publication date2018-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueColonial Latin American Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1060-9164 • E-ISSN: 1466-1802
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10609164.2018.1448538
OpenAlexW2889350393
LanguageEN
References cited20

In the sixteenth century, as moral theology was being consolidated as an autonomous academic discipline, theologians at the University of Salamanca, including the Dominican Francisco de Vitoria, began to incorporate current moral and political issues into their teaching agendas. Prominent among these issues were those arising out of the conquest of the Americas. Their students, a generation of university-trained missionaries, then went to work in Spanish possessions in the Americas and the Philippines. These missionaries and men of learning included the Augustinians Alonso de la Veracruz (in Mexico) and Martín de Rada (in the Philippines and China). As their world expanded, Vitoria's teachings were rendered fully intelligible in the confusing reality of the colonial enterprise, and these missionaries struggled to apply his lessons to the questions of conscience they encountered. The result can be considered a new chapter in the relationship between theological knowledge, the production of facts, and moral certainty, all against the backdrop of the territorial and economic expansion of Spain

Moral theology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious and Theological Studies · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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