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JANSEN, CORNELIUS (1585-1638)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 153 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
JANSEN, CORNELIUS (1585-1638) , bishop of Ypres, and father of the religious revival known as
Jansenism
 , was born of humble Catholic parentage at Accoy in the province of Utrecht on the 28th of October 1585. In 1602 he entered the university of Louvain, then in the throes of a violent conflict between the Jesuit, or scholastic, party and the followers of Michael Baius, who swore by St Augustine.
Jansen
  ended by attaching himself strongly to the latter party, and presently made a momentous friendship with a like-minded fellow-student, Du Vergier de Hauranne, afterwards abbot of Saint Cyran. After taking his degree he went to Paris, partly to recruit his health by a
change
  of scene, partly to study Greek. Eventually he joined Du Vergier at his country
home
  near Bayonne, and spent some years teaching at the bishop's college. All his spare time was spent in studying the early Fathers with Du Vergier, and laying plans for a reformation of the Church. In 1616 he returned to Louvain, to take charge of the college of St Pulcheria, a hostel for Dutch students of theology. Pupils found him a somewhat choleric and exacting master and academic society a
great
  recluse. However, he took an active part in the university's resistance to the
Jesuits
 ; for these had established a theological school of their own in Louvain, which was proving a formidable rival to the official faculty of divinity. In the
hope
  of repressing their encroachments,
Jansen
  was sent twice to Madrid, in 1624 and 1626; the second time he narrowly escaped the
Inquisition
 . He warmly supported the Catholic missionary bishop of Holland, Rovenius, in his contests with the
Jesuits
 , who were trying to evangelize that country without regard to the bishop's wishes. He also crossed swords more than once with the Dutch Presbyterian champion, Voetius, still remembered for his attacks on Descartes. Antipathy to the Jesuits brought Jansen no nearer Protestantism; on the contrary, he yearned to beat these by. their own weapons, chiefly by showing them that Catholics could interpret the Bible in a manner quite as mystical and pietistic as theirs. This became the
great
  object of his lectures, when he was appointed regius professor of scriptural interpretation at Louvain in 163o. Still more was it the object of his Augustinus, a bulky treatise on the theology of St Augustine, barely finished at the time of his death. Preparing it had been his
chief
  occupation ever since he went back to Louvain. But Jansen, as he said, did not mean to be a school-pedant all his life; and there were moments when he dreamed political dreams. He looked forward to a time when Belgium should throw off the Spanish yoke and become an independent Catholic republic on the model of
Protestant
  Holland. These ideas became known to his Spanish rulers, and to assuage them he wrote a philippic called the Mars gallicus (1635), a violent attack on French ambitions generally, and on Richelieu's indifference to inter-national Catholic interests in particular. The Mars gallicus did not do much to help Jansen's friends in France, but it more than appeased the wrath of Madrid with Jansen himself; in 1636 he was appointed bishop of Ypres. Within two years he was cut off by a sudden illness on the 6th of May 1638; the Augustinus, the book of his life, was published posthumously in 164o.
Full details as to Jansen's career will be found in Reuchlin's Geschichte von Port Royal (Hamburg, 1839), vol. i. See also Jansenius by the Abbes Callawaert and Nols (Louvain, 1893). (ST C.)


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