Jansenism
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- noun
- /ˈdʒæn.sən.ɪ.zəm/
- Formal
- Jansenism holds that God double predestines most of the damned but only single predestines the elect so they can reject His grace and be damned as well.
Examples
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Louis XIV's Jesuit advisors were instrumental in fomenting the Crown's ultimately disastrous suppression of Protestantism and Jansenism.
Academic text (1990) -
The history of these propositions, the first five of which would eventually form the core of the heresy called "Jansenism," is a complicated one.
Academic text (1992) -
One can see a new piety as well in the Catholic Reformation, in Jansenism, for example.
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One other comment: Jansenism had its heyday 200 years before Nietzsche.
Blog text (19) -
Jansenism, primarily a Roman Catholic phenomenon, was just as earnest in this regard.
Academic text (2007) -
In one of his pre-papal essays, Joseph Ratzinger acknowledged the influence of Jansenism.
Blog text (19) -
Unfortunately for Saint-Cyran and his friends, the very danger they envisioned soon materialized, and by their own doing, since it was through their insistence on the disputes about salvation and grace that the issue of "Jansenism" was deferred to the papacy.
Academic text (1992) -
Jansenism emphasizes the necessity of Jansenism for understanding the concepts of predestination and divine grace.
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The teachings of Jansenism have significantly influenced discussions on grace within Roman Catholic doctrine.
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Many theologians have debated the implications of Jansenism in relation to contemporary views on salvation and original sin.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Jansenism = Jansen (semi-transparent) = Jansen + ism
The formation 'Jansen' + '-ism' clearly denotes a doctrine or movement tied to a person, but understanding the specific beliefs requires knowledge of Jansen; thus structure is clear but substantive meaning is not fully recoverable from the base alone.
Etymology
Jansenism is named after the Dutch priest Jansen and the ending -ism, which means 'a belief or movement'. So Jansenism is the movement built on Jansen's ideas about human sin and the need for God's grace.