a Christian sect founded by Cornelius Jansen, 17th-century Dutch religious reformer. See alsoheresy. See also:Religion a heretical doctrine of the 17th and 18th centuries denying free-dom of the will, accepting absolute predestination for part of mankind and condemnation to hell for the others, ...
The Semipelagians admitted the necessity of interior preventing grace for all acts, even for the beginning of faith; but they fell into heresy in pretending that this grace is such that man may either follow or resist it; To say that Christ died or shed His blood for all men, is Semipe...
(1509–64), the theologians of the Counter-Reformation had erred in the other direction, emphasizing human responsibility at the expense of the divine initiative and thus relapsing into the 5th-century heresy of Pelagianism—the teaching that humanity is essentially good and can attain salvation ...