Martin Becanus Explained

Martinus Becanus (6 January 1563 – 24 January 1624) was a Dutch-born Jesuit priest, known as a theologian and controversialist.

Life

He was born Maarten Schellekens in Hilvarenbeek in North Brabant; Schellekens is a patronymic and he adopted a Latinized form of the surname Van (Hilvaren)Beek. He entered the Society of Jesus on 22 March 1583, and taught Theology for twenty-two years at Würzburg, Mainz, and Vienna.

He died in Vienna, where he was the confessor to the Emperor Ferdinand II.

Works

Becanus is the author of some 37 books, most of them works of polemics.

Among numerous other works was his Summa Theologiae Scholasticae.

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Attribution

Notes and References

  1. Werner Raupp: Art. Becanus, Martinus, in: VL 17 (cf. References), vol. 1, 2019, col. 491, 497.
  2. Wim Decock, Trust Beyond Faith. Re-Thinking Contracts with Heretics and Excommunicates in Times of Religious War, Rivista internazionale di diritto comune, 27 (2016), 301-328
  3. W. B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (1997), note 139 p. 101.
  4. Peter Godman, The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between inquisition and index (2000), p. 203.