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Jansenism and England - Moral Rigorism across the Confessions (Hardcover)
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Jansenism and England - Moral Rigorism across the Confessions (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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Jansenism and England: Moral Rigorism across the Confessions
examines the impact in mid- to later-seventeenth-century England of
the major contemporary religious controversy in France, which
revolved around the formal condemnation of a heresy popularly
called Jansenism. The associated debates involved fundamental
questions about the doctrine of grace and moral theology, about the
life of the Church and the conduct of individual Christians. Thomas
Palmer analyses the main themes of the controversy and an account
of instances of English interest, arguing that English Protestant
theologians who were in the process of working out their own views
on basic theological questions recognised the relevance of the
continental debates. The arguments evolved by the French writers
also constitute a point of comparison for the developing views of
English theologians. Where the Jansenists reasserted an Augustinian
emphasis on the gratuity of salvation against Catholic theologians
who over-valued the powers of human nature, the English writers
examined here, arguing against Protestant theologians who denied
nature any moral potency, emphasised man's contribution to his own
salvation. Both arguments have been seen to contain a corrosive
individualism, the former through its preoccupation with the
luminous experience of grace, the latter through its tendency to
elide grace and moral virtue. These assessments are challenged
here. Nevertheless, these theologians did encourage greater
individualism. Focusing on the affective experience of conversion,
they developed forms of moral rigorism which represented, in both
cases, an attempt to provide a reliable basis for Christian faith
and practice in the fragmented intellectual context of
post-reformation Europe.
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