During the formulary controversy, this theologian was supported in a text attacking Jesuit casuistry, the Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal.
The death of a self-flagellating follower of this man led crowds at a tomb to practice a "release" ritual, in which they violently beat a person undergoing convulsions. A "respectful silence" towards this man's followers was ended by the decree Vineam Domini.. This man wrote a three-volume book with sections discussing Pelagianism and original sin; that book espoused a namesake theologian's idea of irresistible grace. Five claims from that book by him, the Augustinus, were denounced by the papal bull Cum occasione. During the formulary controversy, this theologian was supported in a text attacking Jesuit casuistry, the Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal. For 10 points, name this Dutch bishop who founded a namesake breakaway Catholic sect.
The death of a self-flagellating follower of this man led crowds at a tomb to practice a "release" ritual, in which they violently beat a person undergoing convulsions.
Cornelius Jansen