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What Has Cartesianism to Do with Jansenism?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Schmaltz, Tad M. |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Description | A primary trigger for the bitter “Jansenist controversies” in France during the seventeenth century was the posthumous publication in 1640 of the Augustinus of Jansen, the late Bishop of Ypres in the Spanish Netherlands. This technical three-volume work attempts to draw from Augustine responses to Pelagian and semi-Pelagian views concerning the prelapsarian state of innocence, the fall from this state, and the grace required to overcome that fall. Jansen's emphasis is on the pervasive corruption of original sin and on the impossibility of meritorious action that does not derive from God's grace to the elect. The Jesuits in Louvain saw the work as a throwback to the theses of Michel du Bay (Baius) that Pope Paul V had condemned in 1567 due to pressure exerted by their order, and they made an unsuccessful attempt to stop the publication of the book.$ ^{1}$ After its publication this text drew the suspicion of Cardinal Richelieu, who (correctly) believed Jansen to be the author of Mars Gallicus, an anonymous pamphlet protesting Richelieu's anti-Habsburg policies. Richelieu chose a theologian of Notre-Dame-de-Paris, Isaac Habert, to launch an attack against the Augustinus. In a series of sermons starting in 1642 Habert criticized Jansen's assertion of the necessity of contrition... |
| Related Links | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/15021/summary |
| Ending Page | 56 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| Starting Page | 37 |
| ISSN | 00225037 |
| e-ISSN | 10863222 |
| DOI | 10.2307/3653999 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Ideas |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 60 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Date | 1999-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | History Jansen Richelieu Grace Pelagian Habert Fall Mars Augustinus Attempt Publication |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Philosophy |
