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Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain developments in the Catholic Church, but later developing political and philosophical aspects in opposition to royal...
22 kwi 2020 · Over the following two centuries, the efforts by theologians, pastors, and spiritual directors to define the role of individual conscience under the influence of divine grace involved Jansenists in successive contestations of papal, episcopal, regal, and civil authority.
This chapter focuses on Jansenism, a development within seventeenth-century Catholicism, particularly in France, that combines old and new features and deserves scrutiny as much for its implications for religious practices and attitudes as for its intellectual and political repercussions.
20 mar 2024 · Jansenism is a Catholic movement that emphasized a return to a purer form of Christian theology. Among other teachings, it strengthened the doctrine of original sin and placed greater importance on predestination in salvation. If we had to trace Jansenism back to a specific figure, Cornelius Jansen would be a good starting point.
4 dni temu · Jansenism instead asserted the Augustinian doctrine of original sin, including the teaching that man cannot keep the commandments of God without a special gift of grace and that the converting grace of God is irresistible.
11 gru 2019 · Jansenism is a movement of the Roman Catholic Church that sought reforms in line with the Augustinian doctrine of grace. It is named after its founder, Dutch Catholic theologian Cornelius Otto Jansen (1585–1638), bishop of Ypres in Belgium.
JANSENISM A system of grace developed by Cornelius Jansen, or Cornelius Jansenius (1585-1638), theologian at Louvain and later Bishop of Ypres. As a school of theology, it should be seen...
