AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

“This temporary favor of the bishop of Rome towards the
Pelagian heresy is a significant presage of the indulgence of
later popes for Pelagianizing tendencies.” - Philip Schaff
11. It was these “pelagianizing tendencies” advocated by the Bishop of Rome that
allowed for the later development of the works righteousness in the
______________ _______________ belief system.
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Cornelius Otto Jansen (October 28, 1585–May 6,
1640) was the Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres and
the father of the religious movement known as
Jansenism.
He actually set out to disprove the Protestant
position and demonstrate that Roman Catholics
were just as Biblically-focused as Luther and his
followers. His major work, Augustinus, was
finished just before he died. In it he presented the
Bible’s and Saint Augustine’s soteriology, which to
the Jesuit (Roman Catholic) watchdogs veered far
too close to the Protestant position. Their initial eight charges of heresy were
reduced to five and in 1643 Pope Innocent X formally condemned them. As
Jansenism continued to spread, the Jesuit resistance became increasingly violent
and papal condemnation more broad. In 1713, Pope Clement XI condemned 101
statements from their writings.
The great French religious philosopher, mathematician and
physicist, Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662), was among the most famous
and influential of Jansen’s followers.
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12. Jansen believed in salvation by the grace of God. On behalf of the Pope, the
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