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MELCHIOR CANO (1525-1560)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANO (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 See also: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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