Cum occasione
1653 apostolic constitution condemning Jansenism
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Cum occasione is an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Innocent X in 1653 which condemned five propositions said to have been found in Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus as heretical.[1]
Signature date31 maggio 1653
SubjectCondemned five propositions found in Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus as heretical
| Cum occasione Apostolic constitution of Pope Innocent X | |
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| Signature date | 31 maggio 1653 |
| Subject | Condemned five propositions found in Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus as heretical |
The five errors of Jansen on grace condemned in Cum occasione are:
- "Some of God's commandments are impossible to just men who wish and strive to keep them, considering the powers they actually have; the grace by which these precepts may become possible is also wanting to them."[2][a]
- "In the state of fallen nature no one ever resists interior grace."[2][3]
- "In order to merit or demerit, in the state of fallen nature, we must be free from all external constraint, but not from interior necessity."[4][b]
- "The Semi-Pelagians admitted the necessity of interior preventing grace for all acts,[c] 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."[4][d]
- "It is Semi-Pelagian to say that Christ died or shed His blood for all men."[4][e]
Bernard Otten explained, in A manual of the history of dogmas, that the first four of these propositions are absolutely condemned as heretical; while the fifth is condemned as heretical when taken in the sense that Christ died only for the predestined.[4]
See also
- Formulary controversy
- Ad sanctam beati Petri sedem – Defined the signification of propositions said to have been found in Augustinus
- Regiminis Apostolici – Defined the Formula of Submission for the Jansenists
Notes
- Denzinger (2012, n. 2001) translated the first proposition as: "Some of God's commandments cannot be observed by just men with the strength they have in the present state, even if they wish and strive to observe them; not do they have the grace that would make their observance possible."
