Pedro Abarca (1619 – 1 October 1693) was a Jesuit
theologian
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Life
Born in
Aragon, he entered the
Society of Jesus
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in 1641, and passed almost all his religious life as professor of scholastic, moral, and controversial theology, chiefly in the
University of Salamanca
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. He died at
Palencia
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Works
Though not mentioned by
Hugo von Hurter
The von Hurter family belonged to the Swiss nobility; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries three of them were known for their conversions to Roman Catholicism, their ecclesiastical careers in Austria and their theological writings.
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in the "Nomenclator," he has left many theological works, among which are five volumes in quarto on the Incarnation and the Sacraments; one in quarto on Grace, and several minor treatises on moral and dogmatic subjects. He wrote also extensively on points of history, via: "The Historical Annals of the Kings of Aragon," "The First Kings of Pampeluna," and has left many manuscripts and one work, which he withheld, about the
Church of del Pilar.
See also
References
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17th-century Spanish Roman Catholic theologians
1619 births
1693 deaths
17th-century Spanish Jesuits
Academic staff of the University of Salamanca