' is an
apostolic constitution in the form of a
papal bull promulgated by
Pope Innocent X
Pope Innocent X ( la, Innocentius X; it, Innocenzo X; 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death in January ...
in 1653 which condemned five propositions said to have been found in
Cornelius Jansen
Cornelius Jansen (, ; Latinized name Cornelius Jansenius; also Corneille Jansen; 28 October 1585 – 6 May 1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.
Biography
He wa ...
's ''
Augustinus'' as
heretical
Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization. The term is usually used in reference to violations of important religi ...
.
The five errors of Jansen on
Grace
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condemned in ' are:
#"Some of God's commandments are impossible to just men who wish and strive to keep them, considering the powers they actually have; the grace by which these precepts may become possible is also wanting to them."
#"In the state of fallen nature
no one ever resists interior grace."
#"In order to merit or demerit, in the state of fallen nature, we must be free from all external constraint, but not from interior necessity."
#"The
Semi-Pelagians admitted the necessity of
interior preventing grace for all acts, even for the beginning of faith; but they fell into heresy in pretending that this grace is such that man may either follow or resist it."
#"It is Semi-Pelagian to say that Christ died or shed His blood for all men."
Bernard Otten explained, in ''A manual of the history of dogmas'', that the first four of these propositions are absolutely condemned as heretical; while the fifth is condemned as heretical when taken in the sense that Christ died only for the predestined.
See also
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Formulary controversy
The formulary controversy was a 17th- and 18th-century Jansenist refusal to confirm the ''Formula of Submission for the Jansenists'' on the part of a group of Catholic ecclesiastical personnel and teachers who did not accept the charge that their ...
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Ad sanctam beati Petri sedem
' is an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Alexander VII in 1656 which judged the meaning and intention of Cornelius Jansen's words in '' Augustinus'', and confirmed and renewed the condemnation in ' promulga ...
'' – Defined the signification of propositions said to have been found in ''Augustinus''
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Regiminis Apostolici
' is an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Alexander VII in 1665 which required, according to the ''Enchiridion symbolorum'', "all ecclesiastical personnel and teachers" to subscribe to an included ''formular ...
'' – Defined the ''Formula of Submission for the Jansenists''
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