Domingo Báñez

Domingo Báñez (1528 to 1604) was a Spanish Dominican theologian and philosopher and one of the leading figures of the later School of Salamanca. He took the Dominican habit at the convent of San Esteban in Salamanca in 1547, studied under teachers including Melchor Cano, and taught in Salamanca, Avila, Alcalá and Valladolid before winning the first chair of theology at Salamanca, which he held for nearly twenty years. He was the director and confessor of Saint Teresa. Báñez became the chief promoter of strict Thomist doctrine in the De Auxiliis controversy over grace and free will, in which he examined the Concordia of the Jesuit Luis de Molina and judged that six of the eleven forbidden propositions appeared in it. He died at Medina del Campo in 1604.