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What is Jansenism?

What is Jansenism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The Catholic doctrines of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination.
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Jansenism was a religious doctrine, a moral teaching and a political position.
The young seminarian did not seem to be interested in the controversy surrounding Jansenism, Gallicanism, or Cartesianism.
This and other writings inspired a puritanical movement of religious devotion that came to be known as Jansenism.
Among other professors he put in a certain Tamburini, who had been expelled from Brescia for Jansenism.
Thus he was one of the first promoters of frequent Communion in a France that was still so influenced by Jansenism and Rigorism.
In the last two centuries much of northern Europe was affected by a movement called Jansenism.

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