Jansenism - Lot 191

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Jansenism - Lot 191
Jansenism [PASCAL (Blaise) ] Les Provinciales ou lettres escrittes par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jésuites avec la Théologie Morale des dits pères & nouveaux casuistes : représentée par leurs pratiques, & par leurs livres... Cologne, Schoute, 1659. In-8 : 7f., 320pp. - 2f., 240pp. Antique stiff vellum with cover, spine soiled, raised quires. The Provinciales, are a set of eighteen fictitious letters, written by Blaise Pascal. Published between January 1656 and March 1657, they were first intended to defend the Jansenist theologian Antoine Arnauld, threatened to be condemned by the Sorbonne, before turning to a criticism of the Society of Jesus.
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