Jansenism which is the work of a not very eminent bishop who wrote a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal's Pensées] Reference

Besides, "Jansenism" was beginning to serve as a label for rather divergent tendencies, not all of which deserved equal reprobation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Pascal, of course, was a major defender of Jansenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casuistry] Reference

Gradually, after this date, Jansenism began to decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-14] Reference

It was the same with a host of pieces relating to Jansenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference

I think the discussion of Jansenism a red herring in respect of Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum] Reference

Ireland also happened to be a bastion of Jansenism and liturgical philistinism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum] Reference

In 1656 he undertook the defense of Jansenism, and published the "Provinciales".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blaise Pascal] Reference

If Jansenism is a scourge of spirituality, Rantzenism is a scourge of materialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [[complain complain] try these] Reference

True, but it also happened to be a bastion of Jansenism and liturgical philistinism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum] Reference

Calvinism and Jansenism; and that in every point he thought like him, the said Biscayan bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

However, Racine, schooled in Jansenism, may fairly be assigned a place in this part of the tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [SENSE OF THE TRAGIC] Reference

We shall see later that the synod of Pistoia holds an important position in the history of Jansenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-14] Reference

Mathematician, Convert from Jansenism, and developer of Pascal Wager, today is the anniversary his birthday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blaise Pascal] Reference

But he was a Jansenist, that is to say, he knew the words of the language of Jansenism and employed them at random.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

From Port Royal Jansenism soon spread over France, deceiving the noblest minds by its seemingly high spiritual appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-14] Reference

OUP 2007 states: Jansenism was viewed with great suspicion by Rome, and 17th‐century Irish synods toed the Roman line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum] Reference

Unfortunately, this approach is doomed because there are real distinctions between Manichaeism, Jansenism and scrupulosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loss of Shame] Reference

Pascal's initial encounter with Jansenism occurred when his father slipped on ice and dislocated or broke his thigh, in January.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blaise Pascal] Reference

The first four treat the dogmatic question which forms the basis of Jansenism on the agreement between grace and human liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blaise Pascal] Reference

The bull Unigenitus again condemned Jansenism, causing religious discontent in France, where the movement had made great progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [1700-1721] Reference

Meanwhile Quesnel, a theologian of the Oratory of Cardinal Berulle, had published a work on Sacred Scripture tainted with Jansenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-14] Reference

She was rather inclined toward Jansenism, but she could not fathom all the subtleties of her friends the Port Royalists, and begged them to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Neither as a theology nor as a political attitude did Jansenism recommend itself to the Irish Catholic community, either at home or abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum] Reference

Nevertheless, the dangers of Jansenism were a continual anxiety to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of St. Vincent de Paul] Reference

Jansenism was then to ordinary Catholicism what Puseyism is to ordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference

Though his famous letters on the burning question of Jansenism were not written until.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rouen] Reference

Jesuits and the strongholds of Jansenism, of Protestantism, or of liberal thought in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference

Gallican Jansenism, you bring into permanent discredit Gallican maxims and Jansenist doctrines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference

Moderate in her Jansenism, as in everything else, she held that the famous formulary denouncing the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference

Pascal's austere, fatalistic Jansenism: what's the point if you can't also enjoy a nice glass of wine?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference

This was nothing but undisguised Jansenism, and his accusers in the Sorbonne rallied for his overthrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal] Reference

The marquis was a rigorist, and though he had a tincture of Jansenism he often differed from St. Augustine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Hence it followed that the Court and the clergy had far more toleration for Atheism than for either Protestantism or Jansenism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Huguenots in France] Reference