 Like many of his fellow Jesuits, Suárez was frequently accused of straying too far and too often from views attributed to Thomas Aquinas. During Suárez's own lifetime and shortly after, allusions to a “Suarista” party (here in opposition to the Thomists) became popular. Suárez himself resisted these distinctions as false and as resting on fabricated oppositions. He denied being any sort of “inventor of a new school” or as “in opposition to or creating a faction against anybody” (Scorraille 2005: I, 310). He also faced opposition within his own order, in particular, from the other great theologian of his time, Gabriel Vázquez—an opposition which developed into a life-long rivalry and a partisanship which survived their deaths.