Background
Aranda was born at Moneva in Aragon.
Aranda was born at Moneva in Aragon.
He taught theology and philosophy at Zaragoza. He was connected with the Inquisition of Aragon and was synodal examiner of the Archdiocese of Zaragoza. He is described by Father Michel de Saint Joseph, in his "Biographica Critica", as "a most acute theologian, eloquent in speech, and a most practical and expert athlete in the scholastic arena".
He was fiercely attacked in a satirical work by Martin Serra, a Dominican, who declaimed against "the indifferent, headless, inefficacious writings of certain theologians, especially the olla podrida of Father Philip Aranda", an assault which almost evoked an interdict against the church of the friar.
He died at Zaragoza in 1695.