They argued in favor of absolute predestination, in which humans are perceived as incapable of doing good without God's unsolicited grace and only a chosen few are believed to receive salvation.
In 1713, under intense pressure from King Louis XIV, Pope Clement XI issued the bull Unigenitus condemning 101 propositions in a treatise by Pasquier Quesnel. Quesnel was part of this movement relying on the strictest possible interpretation of one aspect of Saint Augustine's philosophy. They argued in favor of absolute predestination, in which humans are perceived as incapable of doing good without God's unsolicited grace and only a chosen few are believed to receive salvation. The doctrine took its name from a Flemish theologian and bishop of Ypres, who summarized his ideas on grace and free will in his posthumously published treatise, the 1640 Augustinus. FTP identify this religious movement whose spiritual center became the convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, near Paris.
In 1713, under intense pressure from King Louis XIV, Pope Clement XI issued the bull Unigenitus condemning 101 propositions in a treatise by Pasquier Quesnel.
Jansenists; or Jansenism (prompt on Quesnel on early buzz)