Domingo Báñez

Domingo Báñez (1528–1604) was a Dominican theologian of the later School of Salamanca and its foremost defender of strict Thomism. Born at Valladolid, he entered the Dominicans at Salamanca in 1547, studied under Melchor Cano, and in 1581 became its first professor of theology. He was confessor to Teresa of Ávila.

In 1582 a public disputation with a Jesuit grew into a debate over free will and predestination. In 1588 he censured the Jesuit Luis de Molina's Concordia on grace and free will, and led the Dominicans until it reached Rome's Congregation of Auxiliis. He died at Medina del Campo.