Jacques-Hyacinthe Serry (1659–1738) was a French Dominican

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theologian, controversialist and historian. At the

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from 1698, he taught theology based more closely on Biblical and patristic authority. Under the pseudonym Augustinus Leblanc, he wrote the standard history ''Historiae Congregationum de Auxiliis Divinae Gratiae'' of the

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, and the Dominican-

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controversy on

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that led to its being set up. The work itself is partisan, awarding a Dominican victory based on an unpublished text, but well-documented.Ashley/Dominicans: 7 Survivors 1700s
It was attacked by the Jesuit Livinus de Meyer, writing as Theodorus Eleutherius, in 1705, in his ''Historiae controversiarum de divinae gratiae auxiliis''.

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on Google Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Serry, Jacques-Hyacinthe 1659 births 1738 deaths 18th-century French Catholic theologians French Dominicans Academic staff of the University of Padua