Francisco de Araujo

Francisco de Araujo (1580 – 19 March, 1664), was a Spanish Catholic theologian.

He was born at Verin, Galicia, Spain. In 1601, he entered the Dominican Order at Salamanca. He taught theology (1616-17) in the convent of St. Paul at Burgos, and in the latter year was made assistant to Peter of Herrera, the principal professor of theology at Salamanca. Six years later he succeeded to the chair, and held it until 1648, when he was appointed Bishop of Segovia. In 1656 he resigned his see, and retired to the convent of his order at Madrid, where he died.

Publications

*Commentary on the "Metaphysics" of Aristotle (Two vols: 1° Salamanca, 1617; 2°, ibid., 1631);
*"Opuscula tripartita, h.e. in tres controversias triplicis theologiae divisa" etc. (Douay, 1633);
*a commentary in seven volumes on the "Summa" of St. Thomas Aquinas (Salamanca and Madrid, 1635-47);
*"Variae et selectae decisiones morales ad stat. eccles. et civil. pertinentes" (Lyons, 1664; 2d ed., Cologne, 1745).
*In the second volume of his commentary on Aquinas' "Prima Secundae" there is a treatise on Predestination and Grace, the doctrine of which is Molinistic. Martinez de Prado has proved that this was not written by Araujo, who, in a later work, shows clearly his adherence to the Thomistic teaching on those questions.

ources

*Quétif-Échard, "Script. Ord. Praed.", I, 609;
*Martinez de Prado, "Metaphysica", I, 518;
*Nicolás Antonio, "Bibliotheca Hisp. Nova";
*Meyer, "Hist. controversiarum de anxiliis gratiae", I, ii, c. xxiii, and II, ii, c. xvii;
*Jacques-Hyacinthe Serry, "Hist. congregationum de auxiliis", IV, 27; V, iii, ii;
*Hugo von Hurter, "Nomenclator", II, 5-7;
*Dummermuth, "St. Thomas et doctrina praemotionis physicae" (Paris 1886), 582-588;
*Stanonik in "Kirchenlexikon" (2d ed., 1882), I, 1228-1229.
*Catholic|Francisco de Araujo

Further reading

* Beuchot, Mauricio Puente. Metafísica. La ontología aristotélico-tomista de Francisco de Araújo. Ciudad de México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM 1987
* Fernández-Rodríguez, José Luis. El ente de razón en Francisco Araújo. Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra 1972