Juan González Arintero

Servant of God Juan González Arintero OP
Born	Juan Tomás González y González-Arintero (1860-06-24)24 June 1860 Valdelugueros, León, Spain
Died	20 February 1928(1928-02-20) (aged 67) Salamanca, Spain

Juan González Arintero, OP (24 June 1860 – 20 February 1928) was a Spanish religious priest of the Order of Preachers.

Biography

Early life

Arintero was born in Lugueros, León, and entered the convent of the Dominican Order at Corias (Asturias) in 1875. He took the religious habit in 1879. In 1881, he entered the University of Navarra and was ordained a priest in 1883. In 1886, he completed his studies in physical-chemical sciences and in 1908, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Theology.

As a specialist in the natural sciences, he taught at colleges in Vergara, Corias, Valladolid and later at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome. In Salamanca, he became friends with Marie-Joseph Lagrange.

Career

In Salamanca, Arintero founded the "Scientific-Apologetic Academy of Saint Thomas". In 1921, he founded in Bilbao the magazine La Vida Sobrenatural. He contributed to the restoration of mystical studies in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century and spread many ideas about mysticism, holiness and perfection that later influenced the Second Vatican Council.

Arintero excelled in reconciling faith and scientific postulates. He defined his theses on the evolution of species in his eight-volume work entitled La Evolución y la Filosofía Cristiana ("Evolution and Christian Philosophy"), in which he argues that there are two types of species, "an immutable species whose creation corresponded only to God, and another species, the organic species, which was derived from the first and which, thanks to the accidents explained by scientific evolution, was creating varieties such as genders or races. For Arintero, there was a divine order that always prevailed, and then a game of minor changes."

Arintero died in Salamanca on 20 February 1928 at the age of 67.

Beatification

His cause for beatification has been initiated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salamanca since 5 August 1976.

Works

In Spanish

• 1892: El Diluvio Universal Demostrado por la Geologia
• 1898: La Evolución y la Filosofía Cristiana
• 1901: El Hexámeron y la Ciencia Moderna
• 1904: Teología y Teofobia
• 1908: Evolución Mística
• 1911: Evolución Doctrinal
• 1916: Cuestiones Místicas
• 1919: Exposición Mística del Cantar de los Cantares
• 1920: La Sulamitis: María Inmaculada, ideal del alma religiosa
• 1923: Las Escalas del Amor; reedición 2020 - Introducción [1]

In English translation

• 1949: The Mystical Evolution in the Development and Vitality of the Church
• 1957: Stages in Prayer

See also

• Marie-Joseph Lagrange
• Neo-Scholasticism
• Ramiro de Maeztu

Further reading

• Bandera, Armando (1987). El P. Juan G. Arintero: Renace la Mística. Avila: Asociación Educativa Signum Christi.
• Bandera, Armando (1989). Los Caminos de la Fe: Experiencia Creyente del P. Arintero. Salamanca: Editorial San Esteban.
• Gorce, M. M. (1937). "Arintero (Juan-Gonzales)." In: M. Viller (ed.): Dictionnaire de Spiritualité. Ascétique et Mystique. Vol. 1, Paris: Beauchesne, pp. 855–859.
• Llamera, Marceliano (1992). Los Santos en la Vida de la Iglesia según el P. Arintero. Salamanca: Editorial San Esteban.
• Lobo, Arturo Alonso (1970). El P. Arintero; Precursor Clarividente del Vaticano II. Salamanca: San Esteban.
• Lohrum, Meinolf (1993). "Arintero, Juan González, OP." In: W. Kasper: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche. Herder Verlag, Freiburg, Basel, Wien.
• Plaza Aguilar, Saturnino (2004). La Evolución Doctrinal de la Iglesia según el P. Juan González Arintero OP. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española.
• Rodríguez González, Valentín (2007). María en la Espiritualidad del Padre Juan González Arintero, OP. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española.
• Suarez, Adriano (1936). Vida del M.R. Padre Fr. Juan G. Arintero. Cádiz: Salvador Repeto.

External links

• Juan González Arintero
• Dominican Contributions to the Spiritual Life of the Church Archived 2018-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Arinteriana - vie et oeuvres du P. Arintero en français