Luis de Molina

Luis de Molina (1535–1600) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian of the School of Salamanca. Born in Cuenca, he encountered Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises and joined the Society of Jesus in 1553. He later taught philosophy and theology at Coimbra and Évora.

In 1588 he published the Concordia, arguing through his theory of middle knowledge that divine foreknowledge leaves human free will intact; this system became known as Molinism. Dominicans denounced him to the Inquisition, and Rome examined the dispute from 1597.