Abstract:The cultural imposition generated several polemics in New Spain because it involved different positions about cultural diversity, on evangelization particularly. In his Carta al Emperador (1555), Friar Toribio de Benavente pronounced in favor of indigenous' christianization by force but in some passages of his Memoriales, he assures that some prehispanic laws oblige indigenous more than evangelical law. It shows that this apparent contradiction originates in Scotism doctrine on natural law.Key Words: natural l… Show more
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