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CANO, MELCHIOR (1525-1560)

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CANO, MELCHIOR (1525-1560) , See also:Spanish theologian, See also:born at Taranpon, in New See also:Castile, joined the Dominican See also:order at an See also:early See also:age at See also:Salamanca, where in 1546 he succeeded to the theological See also:chair in that university. A See also:man of deep learning and originality, proud and a victim to the odium theologicum, he could See also:brook no rivalry. The only one who at that See also:time could compare with him was the See also:gentle Bartolomeo de Caranza, also a Dominican and afterwards See also:archbishop of See also:Toledo. At the university the See also:schools were divided between the partisans of the two professors; but Cano pursued his See also:rival with relentless virulence, and took See also:part in the condemnation for See also:heresy of his See also:brother-See also:friar. The new society of the See also:Jesuits, as being the fore-runners of See also:Antichrist, also met with his violent opposition; and he was not grateful to them when, after attending the See also:council of See also:Trent in 1545, he was sent, by their See also:influence, in 1552, as See also:bishop of the far-off see of the Canaries. His See also:personal influence with See also:Philip II. soon procured his recall, and he was made provincial of his order in Castile. In 1556 he wrote his famous Consultatio theologica, in which he advised the See also:king to resist the temporal encroachments of the papacy and, as See also:absolute monarch, to defend his rights by bringing about a See also:radical See also:change in the See also:administration of ecclesiastical revenues, thus making See also:Spain less dependent on See also:Rome. With this in his mind See also:Paul IV. styled him " a son of perdition." The reputation of Cano, however, rests on a See also:posthumous See also:work, De Locis theologicis (Salamanca, 1562), which stands to-See also:day unrivalled in its own See also:line. In this, a genuine work of the See also:Renaissance, Cano endeavours to See also:free dogmatic See also:theology from the vain subtleties of the schools and, by clearing away the puerilities of the later scholastic theologians, to bring See also:religion back to first principles; and, by giving rules, method, co-ordination and See also:system, to build up a scientific treatment of theology. He died at Toledo on the 3oth of See also:September 156o. (E.

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