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. |