Vasquez, Gabriel

Born in 1549 in Villaescusa de Aro (province of Cuenca ). He graduated from the Jesuit College of Liberal Arts at the University of Alcalá de Henares , which was considered one of the best Jesuit schools. At the age of twenty, he joined the Society of Jesus ^[4] .

Vasquez's whole life was devoted to professorship, he taught theology at the University of Madrid (1577-1579) and the University of Alcada de Henares (1579-1585). In 1585, as one of the leading professors of theology, he was invited to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome , where he taught from 1585 to 1591. After returning from Rome, he again took up the department of theology at the University of Alcalá de Henares, where he worked until his death ^[5] .

Vasquez's main work is a two-volume commentary on the sum of the theology of Thomas Aquinas , sustained in the style traditional for the 16th century scholasticism . In addition to them, he was the author of a number of treatises, of which the most famous are “Extensive interpretations of some of the messages of St. Apostle Paul "and" Works on moral theology. " Around 1594, he wrote the work On Worship. In 1617, the disciples of Vazquez published the “Metaphysical Reasoning” in Madrid, a compilation work based on Vasquez's lectures on philosophy ^[5] .

In philosophy, he was a follower of Augustinism . In the debate on the relationship between divine providence and free will of man, which was led by the Dominicans and Jesuits, the voice of which was expressed by Louis Molina , spoke on the side of the Molinists. As part of his own order, he competed with the school of his famous contemporary Francisco Suarez ^[6] . In the doctrine of the Eucharist, he shared the views of John Duns Scott ^[5] . Vazquez is known as a man who fully formulated the doctrine of probabilism , the foundations of which were laid by another Jesuit, Bartolome de Medina ^[4] .