27 January 2020
Word of the Day: Baianism
BAIANISM. A system of grace developed by Michael Baius (1513-89) at
Louvain and condemned in seventy-nine propositions by Pope St. Pius V in 1567.
Its main principles were: 1. man's original state was not a supernatural gift
of God; 2. original sin is the same as habitual concupiscence; 3. as a result
of the fall, man's will is not really interiorly free; 4. all human actions
proceed either from cupidity (evil concupiscence) or from the charity infused
by God. The former actions are morally bad, the latter morally good. Baianism
was the direct forerunner of Jansenism and gave it the logical premises derived
from the Protestant reformers on which it was built.
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