See also:BAIUS, or DE See also:BAY, See also:MICHAEL (1513–1589)
, Belgian theologian, was See also:born at See also:Melun in Hainault in 1513
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Educated at See also:Louvain University, he studied See also:philosophy and See also:theology with distinguished success, and was rewarded by a See also:series of See also:academic appointments
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In 1552 See also:Charles V. appointed him See also:professor of scriptural See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation in the university
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In 1563 he was nominated one of the Belgian representatives at the See also:council of See also:Trent, but arrived too See also:late to take an important See also:part in its deliberations
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At Louvain, however, he obtained a See also:great name as a See also:leader in the See also:anti-scholastic reaction of the 16th See also:century
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The champions of this reaction fought under the banner of St See also:Augustine; and See also:Baius' Augustinian predilections brought him into conflict with Rorne on questions of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace, See also:free-will and the like
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In 1567 See also:Pius V. condemned seventy-nine propositions from his writings in the See also:Bull Ex See also:omnibus afflictionibus
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To this Baius submitted; though certain indiscreet utterances on the part of himself and his supporters led to a renewal of the condemnation in 1579 by See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory XIII
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Baius, however, was not disturbed in the See also:tenure of his professorship, and even became See also:chancellor of Louvain in 1575
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He died, still in the enjoyment of these two dignities, in 1589
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Baius is chiefly interesting as a forerunner of the more celebrated See also:Cornelius See also:Jansen (see JANSEN)
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His writings are described by See also:Harnack as a curious mixture of See also:Catholic orthodoxy and unconscious tendencies to Protestantism; their most noticeable point is the great importance they attach to the fact of See also:sin, both See also:original and actual
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His See also:principal See also:works were published in a collected See also:form at See also:Cologne, 1696, 1 vol
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4to, in two parts; some large See also:treatises have not been published
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There is an excellent study of both books and author by Linsenmann, See also:Michael Baius, und-See also:die Grundlegung See also:des Jansenismus, published at See also:Tubingen in 1867
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