Augustinus
The work on Augustine’s teaching about grace that Cornelius Jansen, bishop of Ypres, left unpublished at his death. It was printed at Louvain in 1640, and the dispute over five propositions said to be drawn from it gave Jansenism its name.
The title page calls the book the Augustinus of Cornelius Jansen, bishop of Ypres, and announces that its first volume sets out from Augustine the errors of Pelagius. Behind the title page is printed a copy of Jansen’s will, said in its heading to have been dictated scarcely half an hour before his death and dated 6 May 1638. In it he gives his writings on Augustine to his chaplain, to be published as faithfully as possible in consultation with two named scholars, and adds that if the Roman See wishes anything changed he is its obedient son. The dedication by those two editors is dated at Louvain in June 1640.
The front matter is cited for the date and circumstances of publication and for Jansen’s own submission to Rome. The wiki does not undertake to say whether the five propositions later condemned are in the book; that was the point in dispute. See Jansenism and the Bull Unigenitus.
Cited in
- 1653 to 1713, firm date