Jansenist

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• (Blaise Pascal was a Jansenist).

  Blog text (7)

• And didn't they fill it with a lot of French Jansenists on the lam from the French Revolution?

  Fiction book (2000)

• The body that participated in the Jansenist controversy in the years 1649-1655 was naturally in direct continuity with those who constituted the Faculty of Theology of Paris in the early part of the century.

  Academic text (1992)

• The case was soon condemned for renewing the Jansenist controversy, but both the pope and the French bishops, including those considered usual supporters of the Faculty, made very clear that decisions of faith were no longer within the doctors' competence.

  Academic text (1992)

• His statue is there because he is supposed to have conducted some atmospheric pressure experiments at the church, although it might have been at St. Jacques-du-Haut-Pas in the Fifth Arrondissement, which had some connections to the Jansenist Port Royal convent.

  Blog text (17)

• Given the influence of the Jansenist heresy (especially the idea that holy people go into religious life and the spiritually defective get married as a remedy for concupiscence), Nietzsche did have a point.

  Blog text (19)

• Leibniz was interested in Church affairs, intellectual gossip, the Jansenist controversy, privileged information on censorship, and the theologian's project of adapting the Leibnizian system to the philosophical views of the Society of Jesus.

  Academic text (2016)

• Many theologians in the 17th century were known as Jansenists due to their emphasis on predestination.

• As a staunch Jansenist, she firmly believed in the concepts of original sin and human depravity.

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