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Jansenism   /dʒˈænsɪnˌɪzəm/   Listen
Jansenism

noun
1.
The Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples; salvation is limited to those who are subject to supernatural determinism and the rest are assigned to perdition.





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"Jansenism" Quotes from Famous Books



... divided on the question whether the system of Descartes could be reconciled with orthodoxy or not. The Jesuits said no, the Fathers of the Oratory said yes. The Jansenists of Port Royal were enthusiastic Cartesians. Yet it was probably the influence of the great spiritual force of Jansenism that did most to check the immediate spread of Cartesian ideas. It was preponderant in France for fifty years. The date of the Discourse of Method is 1637. The Augustinus of Jansenius was published in 1640, and in 1643 Arnauld's Frequent ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury


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