Beschreibung:
Francisco Maldonado de Silva : "facing heaven." The purpose of this article is to present the philosophical and religious contribution of Francisco Maldonado de Silva, one of the most famous martyrs in the history of the New World Judaists, through the analysis of brief fragments of texts that have reached us and which he wrote in Lima's inquisitorial jails. It appears that, in order to refute the dogmas of the incarnation of Christ and the Holy Trinity, the author of these texts invokes arguments taken from scholastic theology and philosophy, but also from authors of antijewish polemics, such as Nicolas de Lyre and Pablo de Santa Maria ( a famous converso himself), although reinterpreted in the opposite way. Francisco Maldonado de Silva's religious thoughts clearly show the original features of an innovative rationalism for the time.