Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits

Kley, Dale Van

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“…42 Though space precludes doing justice to such topics in this essay properly concerned with the period of 1713-1765, a thorough treatment of such complex issues, Augustinian-inspired Catholic reform in Habsburg Austria, Tuscany, Naples, and the "Ibero-Atlantic" world (Spain, Portugal, and their respective empires) redounded negatively upon the Jesuits, resulting in an international wave of expulsions that have been the subject of recent work by Van Kley and others. 43 In fact, it is the subject of a forthcoming edited volume with Cambridge University Press, edited by Jonathan Wright. 44 In conclusion, although the storm over Unigenitus drew the bulk of its inspiration from lingering tensions over grace and ecclesiology within Post-Tridentine Catholic Europe, its aftershocks proved to be a vital catalyst for Enlightenment Catholicism in the years prior to the international suppression of the Jesuits (1759-1773).…”

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The Papal Bull Unigenitus and the Forging of Enlightened Catholicism, 1713–1764

Burson

2014

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This article discusses the relationship between the papal Bull Unigenitus (1713) and the Catholic Enlightenment. The circumstances under which this controversial bull was received in the 18th century in Europe, and particularly in France, partially occasioned the construction of factions in many dynastic states-factions either pro-Unigenitus or pro-Augustinian (including but not limited to Jansenists). These factions, in turn, tailored their particular varieties of Catholic Enlightenment in the process of elaborating their respective positions concerning Unigenitus. This article synthesizes general trends in the present scholarship in order to underscore the importance of Unigenitus to the response of the Catholic Church to the Enlightenment. Because the fractures introduced into Catholic Europe by the bull were most acute during the early 18th century in France and the most formative and contentious factionalism is often presumed to have occurred before the suppression of the bull's most stalwart defenders-the Jesuits-between 1759 and 1773, this article focuses chiefly on the formative years of Catholic Enlightenment factionalism in the middle third of the 18th century before the suppression of the Jesuits.

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