1718 JANSENISM Duguet TRAITÉ DES SCRUPULES

A curious book by the influential Duguet!!

DUGUET, JACQUES JOSEPH

Traité des scrupules, de leurs causes, de leurs espèces, de leurs suites dangereuses, de leurs remèdes généraux & particuliers. par l'auteur du traité de la priere publique.

Paris: Jacques Estienne,1718.

15.3 x 8.6 cms

xii, 264, [12] pp.

Woodcut ornaments and devices.

Original calf binding with raised bands.

Duguet, Jacques Joseph (1649-1733), French theologian and moralist with Jansenist symphaties.

A curious book by the influential Duguet, who treats scruples here as a physician might treat scrofula, offering remedies for each variety.

Jansenism was a branch of Catholic Gallican thought which arose in the frame of the Counter-Reformation and the aftermath of the Council of Trent (1545-1563). It emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination. Originating in the writings of the Dutch theologian Cornelius Otto Jansen, Jansenism formed a distinct movement within the Roman Catholic Church from the 16th to 18th centuries, and found its most important stronghold in the Parisian convent of Port-Royal, haven of many important theologians and writers (Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole, Blaise Pascal, Jean Racine, etc.).

The term itself was coined by its Jesuit opponents, who accused them of being close to Calvinists, as Jansenists self-identified as rigorous followers of Augustinism [1]. Although several propositions supported by Jansenists, in particular concerning the relationship between human's free will and "efficacious grace," were condemned by the Pope, and the movement thus considered as heretical, "Jansenism" in itself was never condemned as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church.

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