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Who was St. Jane of Chantal's first spiritual director?
Before St. Jane de Chantal met St. Francis de Sales, she had a very strict spiritual director,
a priest at the nearby shrine of the Black Virgin at
Notre-Dame-d’Etang. He undertook her direction by ...
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Are the five propositions condemned by Cum occasione in the Augustinus?
This simple question was the center of the quarrel around Port-Royal and the efficacious grace in the 17th century in France. In fact, the defenders of Cornelius Jansen’s Augustinus argued that they ...
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Did any Jesuit opponents of early Jansenism argue that Augustine was wrong on any points?
Cornelius Jansen is known as the intellectual father of Jansenism, a movement not unlike Calvinism in a few respects, like its emphasis on original sin and predestination. Jansen's book, Augustinus (...
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How do various traditions define the term "sufficient grace"?
I have read various polemics on the topics of Augustinianism, Calvinism, Jansenism, Pelagianism, Arminianism, and Catholicism which seem to use the term "sufficient grace" in different ways. For ...
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