The criticism of fernández de lizardi towards the court of the holy office of the inquisition.

Abstract

This research work seeks to demonstrate that, as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
maintains, the New Spain Inquisition had to come to an end by changing the nation's model;
but it is done in the context of a Church that projects its independence and autonomy from
the new State, to prevent the political from dominating the religious and the Gospel from
being converted into an ideology. It is shown that El Pensador Mexicano's criticism of the
New Spanish Inquisition from a moderate liberalism is completed with the proposal that the
Church be modernized allowing the new State to administer its temporal goods, thereby
repeating the schemes of domination. The work of José Toribio Medina, History of the
Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Mexico, has been chosen as the theoretical
framework, because it presents a historical relationship of the inquisitorial autos-da-fé with
lists of the defendants, which allows us to capture that Inquisitorial activities were carried
out more with political and economic interests than religious ones. The purpose is to
collaborate in the study of New Hispanic institutions in relation to the institutional
characteristics of current Mexico.