BESOIGNE, JÉRÔME. - Jansenist theologian, b. in Paris in 1686 and d. there on 25 Jan. 1763. A priest in 1715 and a doctor of theology in 1718, he taught philosophy at the Collège du Plessis. As a young priest, he ranged himself among the opponents of the bull Unigenitus, which condemned Jansenism; for this reason in 1729 he was struck from the roll of the doctors of the Sorbonne and in 1731 exiled. Having returned from exile the following year, and having withdrawn into private life, he devoted himself to compiling his very numerous works.
He upheld the presbyterian thesis of the independence of the priest's — or at least the parish priest's — jurisdiction in the internal forum from his own bishop, given that the jurisdictional power to absolve is granted by God himself to the priest together with the power of order in the rite of ordination. With equal warmth he defended the thesis of the separability of the contract from the Sacrament in the marriage rite.
Through his many ascetical works, he established himself as the most accomplished writer of Jansenist spirituality: Dissertation spéculative et pratique sur la confiance et la crainte (s. l. 1735); La concorde des livres de la sagesse ou morale du St-Esprit (Paris 1737-46); Concorde des épîtres de s. Paul et des Épîtres canoniques, ou morale des apôtres (ibid. 1747); Principes de la perfection chrétienne et religieuse (ibid. 1748); Histoire de l'Abbaye de Port-Royal (6 vols., Cologne [Paris] 1752).
Bibliography5 works[L. E. Rondet], Mémoires sur la vie de J. B., docteur de la Sorbonne, Paris 1763; Hurter, II, col. 1482; B. Heurebize, s. v. in DTHC, II, co
BIBL.: [L. E. Rondet], Mémoires sur la vie de J. B., docteur de la Sorbonne, Paris 1763; Hurter, II, col. 1482; B. Heurebize, s. v. in DTHC, II, coll. 800-801; E. Fréclin, Les jounésistes du XVIIIe siècle et la constitution civile du clergé, Paris 1920, pp. 144-48; J. Carreyre, s. v. in DSp, I, coll. 1581-85.
Zollini, Vito. “Besoigne, jérôme.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 1491–1492. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/besoigne-jerome.
MLA
Zollini, Vito. “Besoigne, jérôme.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1491–1492. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/besoigne-jerome.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_besoigne_jerome,
author = {Zollini, Vito},
title = {Besoigne, jérôme},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1491--1492},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/besoigne-jerome}
}
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