This article will analyze, through the work Flores Summarum seu Alphabetum Morale, from the Peruvian Jesuit theologian Juan de Alloza (1597-1666), the arguments and propositions used to form the judges’ consciences at the time of pronouncing their judgments, attempting to show how moral theology exerted a profound influence on legal issues and court decisions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Spanish America.
Moral theology; conscience; Spanish America