Domingo de Soto

Dominico de Soto OP ( * 1494 in Segovia, † November 15, 1560 in Salamanca, Spanish: Domingo de Soto ) was a Spanish Dominican friar, a professor of theology at the University Complutense of Madrid and confessor of Charles V and a leading representative of the Spanish Late Scholasticism ( School of Salamanca ).

Life

He came from a humble background, worked as a sacristan and then studied theology and philosophy, first at the University of Alcalá, then at the Sorbonne. 1524 joined the one in Burgos in the Dominican Order, and taught at Dominican University in Segovia philosophy and later at the University of Salamanca theology, where he commented on the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas.

1545-1547 he worked as a theologian Charles V and representatives of the Dominican Order at the Council of Trent, where he represented the doctrine of justification by Thomas Aquinas and further developed regarding the relationship between divine grace and human freedom. He was confessor of the Emperor, but declined a nomination as bishop of Segovia and instead returned to his monastery, whose Prior, he was elected in 1550. From 1552 until his death he was teaching at the University of Salamanca.

In addition to his theological work, he was committed to the ideal of poverty Dominicans and especially for the human rights of the poor. In a disputation with the Infante Philip, he defended the right of the poor to self-determination, and engaged in the defense of Valladolid on the side of Bartolomé de Las Casas for the rights of American Indians.

Writings

His most famous writings are

• De ratione et tegendi detegendi secretum 1541
• In dialecticam Aristotelis commentarii 1544
• In VIII libros physicorum 1545
• De natura et gratia 1547
• Comment. in Ep ad Romanos 1550
• De justitia et jure, 1556