Francisco Suárez
Francisco Suárez Francisco Suárez was born in Granada on 5 January 1548 and died in Lisbon on 25 September 1617. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1564, studied at Salamanca, and taught philosophy and theology at Segovia, Valladolid, Rome (Roman College), Alcalá, Salamanca and, from 1597, Coimbra, where he remained until shortly before his death. He is the most influential figure of so-called Second Scholasticism, the revival of scholastic thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially on the Iberian Peninsula, in which Thomism and other medieval currents were reworked in dialogue with the questions of the age. ...