XVII Secolo (1600-1700)

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17th century

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The Great French Century

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Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza

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rise of philosophical rationalism

Question 3

beginning of separation between….

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theology and philosophy;

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Reviver of Thomism, but a Thomism in many respects quite far from Thomas.

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• Francisco Suarez (1548-1617)

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• St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)

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• emphasized the visibility of the Church. Gave an important definition:
• Church is the all the faithful together in unity of:
• faith: (vinculum symbolicum → munus docendi)
• sacraments: (vinculum liturgicum → munus santificandi)
• pastors: (vinculum hierarchicum → munus regendi)–key addition over previous ecclesial thinkers

Question 6

Denys Petau (1583-1652)

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• French Jesuit. Important historian of theology.

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Jansenism

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he movement originated in the heretical devotional environment of the pre-Tridentine reformers, who were not satisfied with the counter-reformation work, and thus restlessly sought a higher evangelical perfection. The Jansenists were also critical of the social changes of the modern world: the decadence of the nobility and the bourgeoisie, and the new secular, commercial realities.

Question 8

Matteo Ricci

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Italian Jesuit missionary to China, his astronomy skills got him into the imperial court (he was okay with ancestor worship)

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Denys PETAU (1583-1652)

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history of theology–the “founder” of our course

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Quietism

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Soul should not want to know whether he walks in God’s will, or if the same will remain or not abandoned; and it is not necessary that it wants to know his state or his true nothingness; but must remain as a dead body.

Question 11

Fenelon, Guyon

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Condemned quietists (There is a habitual state of disinterested love of God who is pure love, into which the soul can enter. The soul in this contemplative life loses all sense of hope or fear. ) In 1699 Innocent XII condemned 23 propositions of Guyon.

Question 12

In response to protestant slanderings of Catholic history…

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• Cesare Baronio (1538-1607): Oratorian. Annales ecclesiastici, refocusing attention on the historical sources; a great critical accomplishment for the time.

Question 13

• Louis XIV advocated an extreme political

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Gallicanism

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Louis XIV - 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715

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Tried to end fuedalism, gain power over aristocracy in France

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– layman, Jansenist. Wrote the Pensees

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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662):

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Franciscan priest. Wrote a work on nature and grace, in which he abandoned the concept of causality in favor of occasionalism. Opposed Aristotelian Scholasticism with a strict Augustinianism. Re-proposed the ontological argument of St. Anselm.

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– Nicolas de Malebranche (1638-1715):