In this seminar, Shaun Blanchard will preview the forthcoming Jansenism: An International Anthology (CUA Press, June 2024). Co-edited with Richard T. Yoder, and relying upon a team of translators, this volume brings 31 Jansenist texts into English from seven different languages, most of them for the first time. With texts represented from Portugal to Lebanon, the Anthology features selections from advocates of religious toleration, pamphleteers defending female Bible reading, apocalyptic prophetesses, and the indomitable women of Port-Royal. The Jansenists’ bold reform attempts prompted ferocious backlash, including papal condemnations that John Wesley feared would destroy “the very foundations of Christianity.”
Professor Blanchard’s presentation and the discussion following will draw on selections from his forthcoming Jansenism anthology, which can be accessed with the links below. These excerpts are for personal reading for this seminar only and should not be distributed publicly.
Jansenism: An International Anthology
Saint-Cyran and the Spiritual Life of Grace
Defending the Right of Women to Read the Bible
Find Professor Blanchard’s Jansenism: An International Anthology with CUA Press.
This event is free and open to all.
Speaker Bio
Shaun Blanchard is a lecturer in theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. A North Carolina native and graduate of UNC, Oxford, and Marquette, Blanchard writes on a variety of topics in early modern and modern Catholicism, publishing in outlets like Commonweal, America, Church Life Journal, and The Tablet.
He is the author of The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II (OUP: 2020). Blanchard co-edited The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology (CUA: 2021) with Ulrich Lehner and co-wrote Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction (OUP: 2023) with Stephen Bullivant.