PZ's Podcast

Episode 14: Paris When It Sizzles


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Jansenism was a religious movement in Seventeenth-Century France that threatened Church and State. Its apologists, including Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine, thought their movement, based on its re-discovery of the teachings of St. Augustine, could save Christianity from the Protestants.

Its detractors thought Jansenism WAS Protestantism, but a Fifth Column of it, burrowing away within the Catholic Church. The two positions were irreconcilable.

The Jansenists lost, and lost catastrophically.
What an interesting lesson here in 'Church', and State.

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