Diego Álvarez (; c. 1555 – 1632) was a Spanish theologian who opposed Molinism. He was

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of Trani from 1607 to his death.

Life

Diego Álvarez was born at Medina de Rioseco, Old Castile, about 1555. He entered the

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in his native city, and taught theology for twenty years in the Spanish cities of Burgos, Trianos, Plasencia, and Valladolid, and for ten years (1596-1606) at the Dominican convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome. From 1603 to 1606 he was elected Regent of the '' Collegium Divi Thomae'' of the Dominicans in Rome. Shortly after his arrival in Rome (7 November 1596) he presented to

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a memorial requesting him to examine the work ''Concordia liberi Arbitrii'', by Luis de Molina, S.J., which, upon its publication in 1588, had given rise to bitter controversy, known as Molinism, on the extent of knowledge of God in the Divine providence. Before the Congregation ( Congregatio de Auxiliis), appointed by the Pope to settle the dispute, he defended the Thomistic doctrines of grace, predestination, etc., alone for three years, and, thereafter, conjointly with his confrere Tomas de Lemos, to whom he gave the first place, until the suspension of the Congregation (1606). He was appointed on 19 March 1607, by Pope Paul V, to the Archbishopric of Trani. The episcopal consecration followed on 1 April in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by the hands of Girolamo Bernerio. He passed the remainder of his life in Trani where he died on 10 May 1632. He was buried in that

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Works

''De auxiliis Diuinae Gratiae'', 1620, left, upright=0.45 Besides a commentary on Isaiah, and a manual for preachers, Alvarez published: * (Rome, 1610; Lyons, 1620; Douai, 1635) * (Trani, 1622; Lyons, 1622) * (Trani, 1629) * (Douai, 1635) * (Lyons, 1620; Cologne, 1621; Trani, 1625) * (Lyons, 1614; Rome, 1615; Cologne, 1622) * (Trani, 1617; Cologne, 1621)

References

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