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Journal ArticleDOI
Ann M. Blair1
TL;DR: The early modern history of philosophy was introduced to me by Constance Blackwell as mentioned in this paper, who introduced me to early modern histories of philosophy when I first met her sometime around the 1993 publication of Giovanni Santinello's Models of the History of Philosophy vol.
Abstract: Constance Blackwell introduced me to early modern histories of philosophy when I first met her sometime around the 1993 publication of Giovanni Santinello's Models of the History of Philosophy vol....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the controversy on grace and justification in the early-modern period that were discussed in the symposium held in Wurzburg on May 12-14, 2011.
Abstract: Der Jansenismus-eine "katholische Haresie"? Das Ringen um Gnade, Rechtfertigung und die Autoritat Augustins in der fruhen Neuzeit. Edited by Dominik Burkard and Tanja Thanner. [Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, Band 159.] (Munster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2014. Pp. viii, 464. euro56.00. ISBN 9783-402-11583-1,)The book contains eighteen essays dedicated to the controversy on grace and justification in the early-modern period that were discussed in the symposium held in Wurzburg on May 12-14, 2011. The symposium examined Jansenism as a European phenomenon of various theological, historical, and political implications. Fourteen essays are in German, one is in French, and three are in English. The book includes an index of abbreviations and acronyms as well as an index of personal names.Free will is one of the oldest questions of history. In the history of Christianity, it is found mainly in the early-fifth-century controversy between St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) and Pelagius, and in its theological and ecclesiastical implications. Later the problem of divine grace and human freedom gave renewed rise to considerable theological debates. Finally, the question of justification, focused through the Reformation, acted as a catalyst. Between the emerging denominations in the wake of these debates also a struggle flared for the "heritage" and for the true hermeneutic of Augustine himself. The theological problems of grace led to violent intra-Catholic controversy that eventually culminated in the mid-seventeenth century in the conflict over tht Augustinus of Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638). Immediately after the publication of this work, which claimed to be the authentic interpretation of the Church Father, came the prohibition of the Augustinus published by the Roman Index of Prohibited Books. The papal bull Cum occasione (1653) condemned five propositions, taken from the Augustinus, as heretical. The explosive force of this act was enormous between theologians and seemed to condemn the theological position on grace of Augustine. The volume examines the complex, multifaceted phenomenon of Jansenism from the theological initial question and offers the analysis of the reception of Augustine's thought by main theologians of the modern period such as John Calvin and Martin Luther. The importance of Augustine's theological thought emerges in this well-documented and nuanced history of Jansenism.Cornelius P. Mayer analyzes the evolution of Augustine's thought until the drafting of the Confessiones. Two essays present Augustine's hermeneutic and the relationship among Luther, Calvin, and Augustine: Otto H. Pesch discusses the ambiguous critique made by Luther, and Karin Scheiber analyzes the main contact points and differences between Calvin and Augustine. Karlheinz Ruhstorfer presents the dispute "de auxiliis" from its origins to the dispute between the Jesuit Luis de Molina and the Dominican Domingo Banez (unfortunately the author ignores the Italian and French studies on this intriguing subject). …

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Reference EntryDOI
15 Dec 2016

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04 Feb 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the circumstances of the publication of this work, such as the Castilianisation of the territories owned by the old Aragonese Crown, the author's Jansenist tendencies, or the enlightened spirit the grammar is imbued with.
Abstract: In 1770, Salvador Puig i Xoriguer published Rudimentos de gramatica castellana in Barcelona, under the auspices of the city’s bishop, Josep Climent. This article discusses the circumstances of the publication of this work, such as the Castilianisation of the territories owned by the old Aragonese Crown, the author’s Jansenist tendencies, or the enlightened spirit the grammar is imbued with, and the theoretical analysis in the text, making novel contributions and drawing on interesting sources.

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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: Adrien Baillet as mentioned in this paper was one of the leading scholars of his age and was recognized in his thirties as a titan of erudition throughout learned Europe, possessing of encyclopedic knowledge, a rigorously methodical and critical mind, and an insatiable passion for truth in both secular and theological mat ters.
Abstract: Adrien Baillet was one of the leading scholars of his age. Born of peasant stock in 1649, and educated for the priesthood by masters who imbued in him a lasting admiration for Jansenist doctrine, he forsook his parish church in the diocese of Beauvais only a short while after his ordination to become librarian to the magistrate Chr?tien-Fran?ois de Lamoignon and preceptor to Lamoignon's son Chr?tien, uncle of the famed and ill-fated royal censor of Louis XVI, Lamoignon de Malesherbes. Under the aegis of Lamoignon, in whose service he remained until his death in 1706, Baillet spent nearly all his spare time studying and writing, and was recognized in his thirties as a titan of erudition throughout learned Europe. Possessed of encyclopedic knowledge, a rigorously methodical and critical mind, and an insatiable passion for truth in both secular and theological mat ters, he composed in the short space of twenty years biographies, pedagogical, historical and theological works, and voluminous critical compendiums, which earned him numerous admirers, in cluding DuCange and Bayle, and not infrequently powerful and intransigent enemies, including, on more than one occasion, the Curia in Rome.

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Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of spirituality as a means of expressing same-sex desire in Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists (1919) and Christopher St John's Hungerheart: the Story of a Soul (1915) is examined.
Abstract: This chapter looks at the role of spirituality as a means of expressing same-sex desire in Hope Mirrlees’ Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists (1919) and Christopher St John’s Hungerheart: the Story of a Soul (1915). It considers how instances of religious ecstasy function within the texts as moments in which a queer transcendence of sexual norms takes place. Because of the spiritual dimension of the protagonists’ emotive gestures, the queer impulse in these novels is an imagined projection into a future that has a utopian quality to it. Ultimately, spiritual desire comes to stand in for same-sex desire, the realization of which is beginning to be imagined as a possibility.