Unigenitus
The constitution of 8 September 1713 in which Pope Clement XI condemned 101 propositions taken from a French New Testament with moral reflections, the work of Pasquier Quesnel. Its closing censure says that they renew the propositions of Jansen.
Read the text at papalencyclicals.net ↗The whole constitution in Latin and French, printed at Paris in 1713 ↗The propositions in Latin, in Denzinger’s Enchiridion (1911), nos. 1351–1451 ↗
The title of the Paris printing gives the date and the book: propositions extracted from a book printed in French in several volumes, Le Nouveau Testament en françois avec des réflexions morales sur chaque verset, in editions of 1693, 1694 and 1699. The author is not named in that title.
The propositions are quoted from the book and concern grace, the church, the reading of Scripture and excommunication. The censure at the end is given to the whole list together: the propositions are condemned as, among other things, false, scandalous, rash, injurious to the church, suspect of heresy and heretical “respectively”, without saying which note falls on which proposition, and as renewing the propositions of Jansen in the sense in which those were condemned.
This record is distinct from the jubilee bull of 1343 that begins with the same word, Unigenitus Dei Filius.
Cited in
- 1653 to 1713, firm date