Showing papers on "Jansenism published in 2006"

The Copts and the West, 1439-1822: The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church

Abstract: Introduction PART ONE - THE COPTS IN EGYPT 1. An Ancient Church 2. Muslim Domination PART TWO - THE MISSIONS 3. The Council of Florence 4. The First Jesuit Mission 5. New Approaches 6. Towards a Coptic Catholic Church PART THREE - KNOWLEDGE OF THE COPTS 7. The First Stages 8. Confessional Clashes I 9. Confessional Clashes II 10. Jansenists and Jesuits 11. Protestants and the Enlightenment PART FOUR - THE COPTIC LANGUAGE 12. Athanasius Kircher and His Shadow 13. Grammars, Dictionaries, and Dialects 14. Manuscript Collecting 15. Biblical Studies Epilogue Bibliography General Index

Piety and politics in the century of lights

Abstract: An older historiography of the Enlightenment took the defence or rejection of Christian belief as its starting point and, dividing the world into ‘believers’ and ‘unbelievers’, regarded political thought as derivative of these groupings. Unbelief unleashed a ‘liberal’ assault on monarchy and social hierarchy, while belief came to the defence of these institutions, resulting in ‘conservative’ political thought (see, for example, Martin 1962). This model does justice to something that was incontestably new in the eighteenth century: namely, the emergence of emancipated, secular thought. Yet it is not without its limitations, chief among them being its underestimation of the ‘enlightenment’ of, and dissent within, ‘believing’ communities. Accordingly, this chapter explores the political ramifications of the divisions between ‘orthodox’ and ‘heterodox’ within eighteenth-century Europe’s believing communities. It asks to what extent the religious and theological differences separating Jesuits from Jansenists, orthodox Lutherans or Calvinists from Pietists, and High Church Anglicans from English Dissenters took the form of differing political visions, not only about the church but also about state and society. In so doing, it broaches the relationship between divergent religious sensibilities and differing kinds of political thought. The heart of the most ‘irreligious’ of Europe’s Enlightenments, France, should provide the acid test of any religiously oriented construal of eighteenth-century political thought. France, therefore, must be this European grand tour’s first and longest stop.

The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661

Abstract: Introduction to the Series Acknowledgements Chronology Map: France in 1620 Introduction PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND 1. EARLY BOURBON MONARCHY The 'Peace' Of Nantes The Recovery Of Royal Authority The Early Reign Of Louis XIII PART TWO: ANALYSIS 2. RELIGION The Catholic Reformation The Cardinal Ministers The Huguenots Jansenism 3. WAR Early Aims and Ambitions France in the Thirty Years' War, 1635-48 Mazarin and the Peace Of The Pyrenees, 1648-59 4. GOVERNMENT Popular Rebellion Money Officers of the Crown Fronde of the Parlement, 1648-49 Personal Government 5. SOCIAL ORDER The Fronde of the Nobles, 1650-53 Louis XIII and the Nobility Historians and the Nobility The Dynastic State PART THREE: ASSESSMENT 6. THE ORIGINS OF FRENCH ABSOLUTISM? The Fouquet-Colbert Rivalry The End Of Government By First Minister? The Golden Years, 1559-61 PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS Who's Who Further Reading References Glossary Index

Catholic figures, queer narratives

Abstract: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Catholic Modernist Crisis, Queer Modern Catholicisms F.S.Roden Queer Converts: Peculiar Pleasures and Subtle Antinomianism T.L. Long The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and Sexuality in Gothic Fiction G.E.Haggerty Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: Re-Inventing Romantic Friendship in Modernity F.S.Roden Confessing Stephen: The Nostalgic Erotics of Catholicism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man P.R.O'Malley 'Uncovenanted Joys': Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge Ritualist Theory in Hope Mirrlees's Madelaine: One of Loves Jansenists R.Vanita The Feminist Priest and the Female Outsider: Catholicism and Sexuality in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop S.Hill The Well of Loneliness and the Catholic Rhetoric of Sexual Dissidence R.Dellamora 'The Women that God Forgot': Queerness, Camp, Lies and Catholicism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood P.J.Smith 'A Twitch Upon the Thread': Revisiting Brideshead Revisited ' F.Coppa The Altar of the Soul: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Works of Julien Green T.J.D.Armbrecht Notes Index

Pascal e o amor-próprio

Abstract: A lexicological approach of self-love in Pascal’s writings: letter (1651) about his father’s death, frag. La 978 and nine occurrences in the Pensees. From the different "self-loves" enumerated by the tradition, Adam’s natural self-love, before the Fall, which is indifferent for Thomas Aquinas, is identified by Jansenius as perverted into concupiscentia. In his Apology, Pascal follows the Jansenist line, in such a radical way that the Port-Royal theologians found necessary to mitigate his feelings, up to contradict him, like Nicole did, who described self-love as a hypocritical substitute to virtuous behaviour.

“Uncovenanted Joys”: Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge Ritualist Theory in Hope Mirrlees’ Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists

Abstract: This essay examines how Hope Mirrlees, in her 1919 novel Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, constructs a lesbian ancestry by drawing on Catholic as well as ancient Greek paradigms. Her configuration of these paradigms is conducted under the aegis of the theory of tragedy developed by her partner, classicist Jane Harrison, in collaboration with fellow Cambridge Ritualist Gilbert Murray. By writing the story of her lesbian protagonist Madeleine as tragedy with a capital T, Mirrlees dignifies the then-emerging narrative of the doomed homosexual. Although she does not use the words “lesbian,” “invert,” or even “Sapphist,” Mirrlees inscribes Sappho into her narrative as a central and ever-proliferating trope, thus also reinscribing into the classical and Christian past the homoeroticism which Harrison’s scholarship determinedly ignores.

La sinceridad de fray Alonso de Santo Tomás, obispo de Málaga, cuestionada por Antoine Arnauld

Abstract: El obispo de Malaga, Fray Alonso de Santo Tomas, sin pretenderlo, se vio inmerso en el centro de la turbulenta controversia provocada por el jansenismo en el siglo XVII, con motivo de la aparicion del infamatorio libro Teatro Jesuitico, falsamente atribuido a el. Su respuesta, en extremo dura, negando tal acusacion, quedo reflejada en la Catholica Querimonia, donde ataca indiscriminadamente a calvinistas y jansenistas. No tardo el gran Arnauld, doctor de la Sorbona, en refutar dicha “Catolica Queja” con severidad a traves de la publicacion de una carta, varias veces impresa. Brother Alonso de Santo Tomas, Malaga’s bishop, was plunged into the turbulent controversy caused in the 17th C. by the Jansenism due to the publication of the defamatory book “Teatro Jesuitico, which was falsely attributed to him. His extremely severe reply deniing the accusation has remained in the work “Catholica Querimonia”, where he attacks Calvinists and Jansenists indiscriminately. The great Arnauld, doctor of the Sorbonne, didn’t take long to refute harshly that complaint through the publication of a long letter, which would be printed on several occassions.