jansenism in English

noun
1
a Christian movement of the 17th and 18th centuries, based on Jansen's writings and characterized by moral rigor and asceticism.
Few would now dispute that Jansenism , originally an austere Augustinian movement, was one of the most significant intellectual influences of the age.

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1. But Pascal, under the influence of Jansenism, was fundamentally hostile to the Jesuits and their notorious sophistries.

2. Through the 17th and into the 18th centuries, Jansenism was a distinct movement within the Catholic Church.

3. Acceptants The Catholics who accepted Unigenitus (1713), the bull of Clement XI condemning the Jansenism of Pasquier Quesnel (1634-1719), in contrast to …

4. AugustinianA (ISSN : 0004-8003) is the peer-reviewed scholarly international journal of the Augustinian Historical Institute (Belgium), devoted to the study of Saint Augustine, the Augustinian Order, Augustinianism and Jansenism