English Explanatory Dictionary

Baianism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A school of thought, the immediate historical predecessor of Jansenism, that claimed thorough Augustinianism over the scholasticism which held sway over most Catholic theologians at the time.

Word forms

Baianism Bajanism

Etymology

From Baian + -ism, after the Roman Catholic theologian Michael Baius (1513-1589).

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