biography
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Jansen, Cornelius (Otto)
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pronunciation:
[jansen], Dutch [yahn<
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| male
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| lived:
| (1585–1638)
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| biography:
| Theologian, founder of the reform movement known as Jansenism, born in Acquoi, The Netherlands. He studied at Utrecht, Louvain, and Paris, became professor of theology at Louvain (1630), and Bishop of Ypres (1636), where he died just after completing his four-volume work, Augustinus (published 1640). This sought to prove that the teaching of St Augustine on grace, free will, and predestination was opposed to the teaching of the Jesuit schools. The book was condemned by Pope Urban VIII in 1642, but the controversy raged in France for nearly a century, when a large number of Jansenists emigrated to Holland. |
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