Jansenist

But he was a Jansenist, that is to say, he knew the words of the language of Jansenism and employed them at random.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

As soon as you begin talking of stripping yourself of cigarettes, (and ash trays) chewing gum and pepsi-cola, and (if you can afford it) television sets--then you are called a Jansenist or a Manichaen, negative in your approach, a deviationist heretic of an opponent of the working class as well as of the Church.

Archive 2007-09-01 Athanasius 2007

As soon as you begin talking of stripping yourself of cigarettes, (and ash trays) chewing gum and pepsi-cola, and (if you can afford it) television sets--then you are called a Jansenist or a Manichaen, negative in your approach, a deviationist heretic of an opponent of the working class as well as of the Church.

Vintage Distributism Kelly M. 2007

The so-called Jansenist doctrine, on the other hand, of [] + but irresistible grace was the appropriate view of the Port-Royalists, high-pitched, eager souls as they were, and of their friend Pascal himself, however much in his turn he might refine upon it.

Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866

They affirm, one through the hero of a father, the other through the brilliant Jansenist, their hidden side: a temptation for the contrary.

Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies Marie-Laure Delorme 2011

That's me all right, but Kozinski clearly does not want to condemn all traditionalists, and I feel I should speak up here for the thousands of hardcore trads who are not at all Jansenist or harsh but are decent, well-balanced human beings.

On "Gnostic Traditionalism" 2009

"This Jansenist negativity, which is still deeply rooted in some conservative Catholic quarters of the United States (much less in Europe) ..."

Dr. Michael Waldstein: "West's work is uncompromisingly in line with the Church's faith." 2009

Eighteen letters in defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld from Port-Royal-des-Champs, a friend of Pascal who in 1656 was condemned by the Faculté de Théologie at the Sorbonne in Paris for views that were claimed to be heretical.

Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

I have no doubt that there is a "Jansenist negativity" "deeply rooted in some conservative Catholic quarters" in America.

Dr. Michael Waldstein: "West's work is uncompromisingly in line with the Church's faith." 2009

As a proponent of TOB, I can't make a claim as to how many Catholics do or don't have a "Jansenist negativity".

Dr. Michael Waldstein: "West's work is uncompromisingly in line with the Church's faith." 2009