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Document Details : Title: Dai Pelagiani ai Recentiores Subtitle: L'affaire du plagiaire (Garasse) nell'Augustinus e nella corrispondenza di Cornelis Jansen Author(s): CATALANO, Chiara Journal: Augustiniana Volume: 62 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2012 Pages: 153-188 DOI: 10.2143/AUG.62.1.3294569 Abstract : On the first of September 1626 La somme théologique des vérités capitales de la religion chréstienne (1625) of Jesuit François Garasse (1584-1631) was condemned by Sorbonne, after a dispute between the author and Jean Duvergier de Hauranne (1581-1643). Jansenius' friend wrote a confutative work Somme des fautes (1626), composed of three books. However, only the first one was published before the condemnation. Did this book have an influence on this affaire? Which one? These are the questions this essay begins from. In this article there are both a reconstruction of the French polemical context of the Seventeenth Century - whose one of the protagonists was Garasse - and an analysis of the criticism addressed to the modem Pelagian opinion of Garasse in Somme des fautes and in Jansenius' Augustinus (1640). Indeed, this affaire also interests to Jansenius. In his Correspondence to Saint-Cyran it appears the expression affaire du Plagiaire in order to refer to the case of Garasse and the events of his writing's condemnation. The term 'Plagiaire' comes from the work Deffence pour Estienne Pasquier, vivant conseiller du Roy etc. contre les impostures et calomnies de François Garasse, written by his sons and Antoine Rémy against Garasse. After an historical and introductive part, this essay addresses Jansenius' criticism to modern Pelagian Garasse contained in his opus magnum and in his letters. The aim of this work - which is particularly concerned with Augustinus - is to show how the criticism to the Pelagian opinion reveals a polemical target addressed not only to the ancient Pelagians, but to the modem ones too. May the Lovanist (Jansenius) be considered a new 'Augustine'? |
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