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Jansenism
About: Jansenism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 189 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1397 citations. The topic is also known as: jansenisme & jansenists.
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TL;DR: Jansenism was a peculiarly high-minded religious movement within Catholicism, but it exercised very little influence on the development of Christianity in France as discussed by the authors, and the reasons for the Jesuit opposition as well as the relations of the movement to political and papal interests.
Abstract: Jansenism was a peculiarly high-minded religious movement within Catholicism, but it exercised very little influence on the development of Christianity in France. This article undertakes to place the movement in its historical setting and to indicate the reasons for the Jesuit opposition as well as the relations of the movement to political and papal interests.
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TL;DR: The history of praelectio from Erasmus to the 18th century reveals an increasing orientation towards to form more than substance as mentioned in this paper, and the Jesuits, contrary to the moral of the Ancients pagans, think that their beautiful style can and should be used to tell God's glory.
Abstract: Michele Rossellini : Words without things : the praelectio The history of praelectio from Erasmus to the 18th century reveals an increasing orientation towards to form more than substance. The Jesuits, indeed, stay away from the moral of the Ancients pagans, but they think that their « beautiful style » can and should be used to tell God's glory. The Jansenists, opposed to the flashing eloquence, turned the exercice towards language and translation. These process of thoughts have made a concept of « explication de texte » wich separates them from their fonction of speech.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse sermons from the perspective of aesthetics of production and reception, and show that along with Baroque and Enlightened piety, Jansenist influences also coexisted, something which has hardly been appreciated so far in research.
Abstract: With the Council of Trent, Catholicism defined itself for the first time as a confession with distinct identifying features. In order not only to create but also to maintain such a Catholic Confessionalised identity, Catholic preachers needed to react to contemporary settings and currents as well as to fixed points of reference, as represented by the decrees of Trent. The scope provided by the Trent decree on preaching, “super lectione et praedicatione,” was so wide that, based upon it, individual ideas could be constructed about what constituted a “good” sermon. This can be seen in the various hermeneutics of the Council that developed up to the 18th century, and the associated post-Tridentine practices of piety, which are commonly grouped under the terms “Baroque” and “Enlightenment.” This article, which analyses sermons from the perspective of aesthetics of production and reception, is nonetheless able to show that along with Baroque and Enlightened piety, Jansenist influences also coexisted, something which has hardly been appreciated so far in research. At the same time, the preachers and the audiences do not seem to have understood the complex network of variously coded elements of Catholic confessional culture as a contradiction: the pastoral strategies of Catholics from the years 1650 to 1800 seem rather not to have been characterised by wave-like motion, with specific extensions on the ritual-sensual or rational-iconoclastic levels, as has been assumed in research. Such asynchrony can also be recognised in textual samples drawn from the Russian Orthodox history of preaching.
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