Quotes:Escobar y Mendoza, Antonio de

Zirkoff, Boris

Escobar y Mendoza, Antonio de. Spanish theologian, b. at Valladolid, 1589; d. there, July 4, 1669. In his sixteenth year, entered the Society of Jesus. Talented and untiring labour won him distinction for scholarship, and fame as a preacher. “His writings are recognized as classical and challenge criticism as far as their 414 orthodoxy is concerned. For this reason Pascal’s efforts ... to fasten the charge of laxism on Escobar’s Manual of Cases of Conscience ... are too base and cowardly to merit serious consideration.” (Catholic Encyclopaedia.) Chief works: Examen et praxis confessariorum, Lyons, 1647.—*Liber Theologiae Moralis, viginti quatuor Societatis Jesu Doctoribus reseratus, quem R. P. Antonius Escobar de Mendoza ... in examen Confessariorum digestit. Thirty-seven editions of this work were published in Spain, three ed. at Lyons (1650), one at Venice (1650), one at Brussels (1651), and at least one at Paris (1656). The British Museum ed. is of Lyons, 1659, 8vo. (848. c. 11.), and there is a later ed. of 1663, at Lyons also.—De triplici statu ecclesiastico, Lyons, 1663.—De justitia et de legibus, Lyons, 1663.—*Universae theologiae moralis receptiores absque lite sententiae. Lyons, 1652-63. 7 vols. (Library of the Univ. of Cambridge.)

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, pp. 413-414