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n. - The Roman Catholic doctrine that salvation is limited to those who are subject to supernatural determinism and the rest are assigned to perdition (named for its major proponent)

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  • Jansenism which is the work of a not very eminent bishop who wrote a
  • Besides, "Jansenism" was beginning to serve as a label for rather divergent tendencies, not all of which deserved equal reprobation.
  • Pascal, of course, was a major defender of Jansenism.
  • Gradually, after this date, Jansenism began to decline.
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