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BAIUS, or DE BAY, MICHAEL (1513–1589)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 225 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . In 1552 See also:Charles V. appointed him See also:professor of scriptural See also:interpretation in the university . 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 . 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 . 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, See also:free-will and the like . In 1567 See also:Pius V. condemned seventy-nine propositions from his writings in the See also:Bull Ex See also:omnibus afflictionibus . 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 XIII . Baius, however, was not disturbed in the See also:tenure of his professorship, and even became See also:chancellor of Louvain in 1575 . He died, still in the enjoyment of these two dignities, in 1589 . Baius is chiefly interesting as a forerunner of the more celebrated See also:Cornelius See also:Jansen (see JANSEN) . 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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principal See also:works were published in a collected See also:form at See also:Cologne, 1696, 1 vol . 4to, in two parts; some large See also:treatises have not been published . 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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