SOTO, PEDRO de. - Dominican theologian, b. at Alcalá ca. 1495, d. at Trent on 20 April 1563. A religious at Salamanca (30 March 1518).
A zealous promoter of strict observance, he also held offices in the Order, and was a co-founder of the University of Dillingen (1549), where he taught theology (1549-55). Invited by Card. Pole, he taught at Oxford (1556). He examined Carranza's Catechism, taking up its defense. On 9 May 1561 Pius IV appointed him his theologian at the Council of Trent, where he upheld the divine right of the residence and jurisdiction of bishops.
A prudent and skillful diplomat, he was often an intermediary between the Emperor and the Pontiff. He contributed to the Peace of Crépy between the Emperor and the King of France and took part in the Diet of Augsburg. He left various works of a catechetical and polemical character: Institutiones Christianae (Augsburg 1548); Compendium doctrinae catholicae (Ingolstadt 1549, and very many other editions); Methodus Confessionis (Antwerp 1550; Dillingen 1553); Assertio catholicae fidei (Cologne 1555); Tractatus de institutione sacerdotum (Dillingen 1558, used for a long time as a manual at the University of Dillingen); Defensio catholicae religionis (Antwerp 1557).
Bibliography5 worksQuétif-Echard, II, pp. 183-84; I. A. Orsi, De D. de S. et Indoci Ravesteyn de concordia Gratiae et liberi arbitrii cum R. Tappero epistolari
BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, II, pp. 183-84; I. A. Orsi, De D. de S. et Indoci Ravesteyn de concordia Gratiae et liberi arbitrii cum R. Tappero epistolari disputatione, Rome 1734; V. Carro, El maestro D. de S. y las controversias politicas-teologicas en el siglo XVI, 2 vols., Salamanca 1931-49; id., s. v. in DThC, XIV, coll. 2431-43; id., Los Dominicos y el Concilio de Trento, Salamanca 1948, passim.
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Soto, pedro de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1004. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/soto-pedro-de.
MLA
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Soto, pedro de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1004. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/soto-pedro-de.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_soto_pedro_de,
author = {D'Amato, Alfonso},
title = {Soto, pedro de},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {1004},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/soto-pedro-de}
}
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