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- noun The theological principles of Cornelis Jansen, which emphasize predestination, deny free will, and maintain that human nature is incapable of good. They were condemned as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A system of evangelical doctrine deduced from the writings of Augustine by Cornelius Jansen, Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres (1585-1638), and maintained by his followers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.
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- noun The
Catholic doctrines of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasiseoriginal sin , divine grace andpredestination .
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- noun 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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Examples
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About 1646 he fell in with some representatives of the religious revival within the Church which has become known as Jansenism -- after Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres, whose theological work is taken as the origin of the movement.
Pascal's Pensées Blaise Pascal 1642
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This heresy is known as Jansenism from the fact that its followers based their doctrine upon a treatise on St. augustine written by Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres 1585-1638, and published after his death in 1640.
Forerunners of the French Revolution. Part 2b de Brantigny........................ 2007
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This heresy is known as Jansenism from the fact that its followers based their doctrine upon a treatise on St. augustine written by Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres 1585-1638, and published after his death in 1640.
Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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In Austria, as elsewhere, what was called Jansenism implied Conciliar and Gallican ideas but also a stress on devotion and on works of charity and a genuine desire to raise spiritual standards.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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The first is, that he will have the goodness to give me a pious and methodical successor, sound and firm against Jansenism, which is in prodigious credit on this frontier.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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This is not "Jansenism" but simply a proper attitude to the Blessed Sacrament.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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This is not "Jansenism" but simply a proper attitude to the Blessed Sacrament.
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Besides, "Jansenism" was beginning to serve as a label for rather divergent tendencies, not all of which deserved equal reprobation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Jansenism which is the work of a not very eminent bishop who wrote a
Pascal's Pensées Blaise Pascal 1642
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But in a man of the type of Pascal -- and the type always exists -- there is, I think, an ingredient of what may be called Jansenism of temperament, without identifying it with the Jansenism of Jansenius and of other devout and sincere, but not immensely gifted doctors. [
Pascal's Pensées Blaise Pascal 1642
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