Michel De Bay

Michel De Bay (or Michel de Baius in Latin), born in 1513, died in 1589, theologist considered as the preparer of the Jansénisme.

Genealogy

Michel De Bay is also known under the name of Baius which is the Latinization of its name.

Born in 1513 in Wallonia, with Meslin-l' Évêque (Ath) it is deceased on September 15th, 1589 with Leuwen. Third of 7 children, he was the son of Jean De Bay (Censier with Bauffe and then with Lombise, born about 1470 with Chièvres) and of Andrinette Nève. His/her Pierre brother, deceased in Chièvres on November 8th, 1552, was cleaned with Brugelette, senior with Chièvres and as a last canon of Vincent Saint to Soignies. His/her sister Josine (deceased on September 17th, 1567) was nun higher of the gray sisters than Chièvres. Its nephew Jacques De Bay was also professor of theology to Leuwen.

Biographical elements

Michel de Bay (or Michel Baius) studied philosophy with the the University of Louvain. In 1541, after having obtained its License in theology and its Ordination of priest, it was named director of the Standonk college, in Leuwen.
Doctor in philosophy in 1544, it preserved this pulpit until the 1550. He was named vice-chancellor of the Adrien college, always in Leuwen, and became the substitute of Jan Hessels (Jean Leonardi Hasselius), professor of Scriptures sent to the Concile of Thirty.
De Bay started to work with new ideas on the doctrines with Jan Hessels (1522-1566) and Jose Ravesteyn (Tiletanus) (1506-1570), professor of theology in the same university and also taking part in the council of the Counter-Reformation.
Lorsque the two holders of pulpits returned from Thirty into 1552 of Thirty, they realized not very orthodoxe of the ideas their substitutes and thus asked the judgment of 18 proposals of Bay and Hessels on behalf of the Parisian university of the Sorbonne.
Toutefois, in spite of the official censure, the two dissenting theologists were chosen, with the general surprise, in 1561 to represent the University of Louvain to the council of Thirty.
Après of the polemics and the discussions, they were sent there in 1563 officially as theologist of king d' Espagne, Philippe II (1556-1598).
Le pope Pie V publishes the bubble " Bus Ex afflictionibus" condemning the proposals of Bay but without the mention of its name. He condemned 76 proposals drawn from his works.
En 1570, it is appointed director of the university and senior of collegial the Saint Pierre with Leuwen.
Contraint finally by the Pope Black and white V to retract its proposals, it was then promoted Directeur of the university (today Catholic Université of Leuwen) and senior from collegial the Saint Pierre in Leuwen.

Michel de Bay had as raises Cornelius Jansen and its teaching is at the origin of the Jansénisme.

Michel De Bay is reproduced on the Char of the city of the procession of the Ducasse d' Ath among the notabilities.

Its works were printed with Cologne in 1696.

He is currently founder of a grant (purse n° 2) of 250 euro:

for the ecclesiastical Philosophy and the Theology, in favor of the parents of the founder;
for theology only, in favor of young native people of Meslin-l' Bishop, Ath, of the Hainaut, Lille, Douai, Cambric, and, finally, of the Belgians, and abroad residing in Belgium.

Jean-Baptiste Duchesne wrote the Histoire of Baïanisme in 1731.

Baianisme

De Bay was influenced by the thought of some Dominican theologists of the time, in reaction against the Protestant Reform. It based on an attentive and direct second reading Holy Scriptures and Fathers of the Church, like Saint Cyprien, Saint Ambroise and especially Saint Augustin.

In addition, its doctrines were in reaction against the strict application of the concepts expressed in Concile of Thirty (1545-1563), recommended by the Jésuites: externalization of the worship, acceptance passivates sacraments, total tender with the hierarchy of the Church. The Jesuits, in particular, applied a benevolent laxism towards the sinners subjected to the Church, by taking account of a whole series of extenuating circumstances, based on the cases of conscience. However they did not hesitate to employ the force against the dissidents, armed with the best religious intentions and morals. The source of this thought Jesuit was the Théologie N Luis Molina (1535-1600), author of the free Concorde arbitrii cum gratiae donis, divine praescientia, providentia, praedestinatione and reprobatione (1588).

The fundamental points of the baianism are:

In the state of the man before the Original sin , innocence is not a supernatural gift of God, but a complement of the human nature. This state includes predestination with the paradise, the absence of suffering and death, ignorance. According to Bay since the original sin all the actions of the men made without the Grâce are sins.
the original sin is not simply a deprivation of the grace, but state of sin transmitted of hereditary manner even to the innocent children. In spite of the free will, the man, without the divine grace, is able anything else only of sin. De Bay denied inter alia the Virgin Mary had been born without the Original sin .
the gift of primitive innocence is restored by God and Christ mediator: the repentances and the grace indeed enable us to recover these values, thanks to Charity.

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