Jansenism vs Baianism - What's the difference?
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The Catholic doctrines of and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 798:
*:From the mid-seventeenth century, therefore, disputes about Jansenism turned into a struggle for the soul of the French Church, now vigorously resurgent against a steadily more beleaguered Reformed Protestantism.
A school of thought, the immediate historical predecessor of Jansenism, that claimed thorough Augustinianism over the scholasticism which held sway over most Catholic theologians at the time.