I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around the Jansenism schism of the Catholic Church in 1643 and am having a hard time understanding exactly what the basis was.
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Jansenists asserted that God’s grace could not be rejected, and that God chose which people were saved without their consent.
It was created as a response to the Counter Reformation as Jansen was concerned the Catholic church, namely Jesuits, were drifting too close to Pelagianism. Pelagianism is the belief that humans were capable of redeeming themselves without God’s grace.
Because of their beliefs, Jansenists generally had a much harsher stance on sin and forgiveness. For example, one was not supposed to take communion in a state of venial sin.
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