McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Henriques, Henrique (2)

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Henriques, Henrique (2)


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a Portuguese theologian, was born at Oporto in 1536. He joined the Jesuits, and taught philosophy and theology in the colleges of his order at Cordova and at Salamanca; but afterwards went to the Dominicans, and became famous by his writings against the Molinists. He finally returned to the Jesuits, and died at Tivoli, February 28, 1608, leaving, Sunmma Theologiae Moralis (Salamanca, 1591; Venice, 1596): — De Claribus Ecclesiae, condemned by the court of Rome: — De Justitia Censurarum in Causa Republicae Venetae (MSS. preserved in the Vatican, No. 5547): also a large number of small treatises. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.