Baianism

The baianism is catholic doctrines which is at the origin of the Jansénisme and which it is used to indicate in the works of time. It was developed by Michel de Bay (1515 - 1589) known as Baius , the main thing of the college of Standock at the university of Leuwen, in Belgium, which undertook to resume the study of theology, only starting from the Holy-Writings and Fathers of the Church, particularly of the thought of Augustin d' Hippone (Holy Augustin) and by giving up the method of discussion scholastic of saint Thomas d' Aquin.

Doctrines

The baanism revêt a doctrinal form which one can summarize at the following points:

the man was created with the state of perfection with the grace of God, but, since the Original sin , it became a private creature of its own perfect nature, and which is able to only sin and tends towards the Evil in a natural way. This vision of the man is close to that of the Calvinisme, although Baïus is defended some.
Since the fall, nobody is born without the imperfection from the sin, that of which attest the sorrows that Marie and the saints suffered.
the man was created by the free will, i.e. the grace of God, but not the Evil which can be the work of God neither like direct creature, nor like a need registered in the man. The sin is an effect of the freedom of the man, i.e. of his own will. It follows that the man changed his nature and that it now undergoes the need for his desires and its emotions; that it does not have any more any faculty to decide and act and that it lost the grace.
charity can meet at a man who did not receive the remission of his sins, or even at that who was not baptized or who is inaccurate, so that the sin cannot be given by a perfect contrition, it be-to say at the same time sincere and accompanied by works of penitence if one naturally did not receive the baptème and grace.

Judgment

The works of Baïus were attacked by theologists of the Netherlands, and particularly by franciscains which reproached him for contradicting Dun Scott and which drew from its books eighteen proposals that they addressed for opinion to the faculty of theology of Paris which censured these proposals.

The cardinal of Granvelle, governor of the Netherlands, imposed silence to the partisans of Baïus and on his detractors and wrote with Philippe II of Spain to open information.

All its writings were examined and it of it was drawn soixante-seize proposals so that they are submitted to the Holy See.

The pope Pie V condemned the whole of the proposals, without naming Baïus and while specifying that some of them could be constant if one stuck to the letter of the terms and for that which had pronounced them.

This precision was the cause that Baîus agreed to retract them, but while specifying that it was according to the intention of the Bubble and the way in which the bubble condemned them. It followed that the polemic developed, and that Jansénius which had been its pupil, took again the principal elements of its doctrines to compose Augustinus.

Sources

Abbot Pluquet, Dictionary of the heresies, the errors and the schisms , 1768, at Didot the Young person, with approval and privilege, 2 in-12°.
Sylvestre de Sacy, V° " Baïus" , in universal Biography , to dir. Michaud, III, 245

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