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This engaging work is the first book-length investigation into the influence of Jansenism on Alexis de Tocqueville's political thought. More than just an intellectual biography, this book demonstrates that once Jansenist connection is understood, Tocqueville's political thought can be applied in new and surprising ways.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 'Dr Peter Campbell is to be congratulated on a bold, important and learned work' – Literary Review '[Peter Campbell] has given a valuable synthesis of recent work on seventeenth-century France' – Times Literary Supplement 'Bulges with stimulating insights and bright ideas.' – French History 'A rare snapshot of how high politics actually worked ... With this manual in hand the reader could survive at the court of Louis XV - and probably score.' – History Today

Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown and the Pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns' adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious, innocent and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural studies, feminism and the Cambridge School of political thought, Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart of the Jansenist challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism; they responded to royal persecution with a feminist defense of women's spiritual and rational equality and of the autonomy of the individual subject, thereby offering a bold challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism.

Extrait: \"Au temps de Port-Royal, les évêques de France avaient été constamment mêlés aux querelles religieuses, et c'est l'intervention d'un grand nombre d'entre eux qui a rendu possible en 1668 la paix de Clément IX. Au temps de la bulle Unigenitus, c'est la mésintelligence des prélats français qui a éternisé la lutte et rendu les accommodements impossibles\"

Catholics without Rome examines the dawn of the modern, ecumenical age, when \"Old Catholics,\" unable to abide Rome's new doctrine of papal infallibility, sought unity with other \"catholics\" in the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox churches. In 1870, the First Vatican Council formally embraced and defined the dogma of papal infallibility. A small and vocal minority, comprised in large part of theologians from Germany and Switzerland, judged it uncatholic and unconscionable, and they abandoned the Roman Catholic Church, calling themselves \"Old Catholics.\" This study examines the Old Catholic Church's efforts to create a new ecclesiastical structure, separate from Rome, while simultaneously seeking unity with other Christian confessions. Many who joined the Old Catholic movement had long argued for interconfessional dialogue, contemplating the possibility of uniting with Anglicans and the Eastern Orthodox. The reunion negotiations initiated by Old Catholics marked the beginning of the ecumenical age that continued well into the twentieth century. Bryn Geffert and LeRoy Boerneke focus on the Bonn Reunion Conferences of 1874 and 1875, including the complex run-up to those meetings and the events that transpired thereafter. Geffert and Boerneke masterfully situate the theological conversation in its wider historical and political context, including the religious leaders involved with the conferences, such as Döllinger, Newman, Pusey, Liddon, Wordsworth, Ianyshev, Alekseev, and Bolotov, among others. The book demonstrates that the Bonn Conferences and the Old Catholic movement, though unsuccessful in their day, broke important theological ground still relevant to contemporary interchurch and ecumenical affairs. Catholics without Rome makes an original contribution to the study of ecumenism, the history of Christian doctrine, modern church history, and the political science of confessional fellowships. The book will interest students and scholars of Christian theology and history, and general readers in Anglican and Eastern Orthodox churches interested in the history of their respective confessions.

Extrait: \"Si l'on demandait à un enfant de nos catéchismes de persévérance ce qu'est le jansénisme, il ne manquerait pas de répondre que c'est une hérésie moderne, la plus artificielle peut-être de toutes les hérésies, – comme le dit R. P. Loriquet, – et qu'il fut introduit vers le milieu du XVIIe siècle, par un évêque flamand appelé Janssen, en latin Jansenius.\"

The Catholic Church and the Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy studies the impact of Jansenism and anti-Jansenism on vernacular Bible reading and Bible production in the Low Countries in the sixteent and seventeenth centuries.

Before being declared heretical in 1713, Jansenism was a Catholic movement focused on such central issues as original sin and predestination. In this engaging book, David Selby explores how the Jansenist tradition shaped Alexis de Tocqueville's life and works and argues that once that connection is understood, we can apply Tocqueville's political thought in new and surprising ways. Moving from the historical sociology of Jansenism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France to contemporary debates over the human right to education, the role of religion in democracy, and the nature of political freedom, Selby brings Tocqueville out of the past and makes him relevant to the present, revealing that there is still much to learn from this great theorist of democracy.

The debate in 17th-century France between the Quietists and their opponents raised the question whether we should be willing to sacrifice the salvation of our own souls for love of another. Descartes's views on freewill were cited by both sides.