Information Concerning the Book of Father Henry Noris, Augustinian, etc., Titled Historia Pelagiana, Historical Dissertation on the Fifth Synod, Vindiciae Augustinianae. To the Censors of This Book Lately Appointed by the Supreme Pontiff. By a Theologian of Paris

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Original title: Informatio de libro r. p. f. Henrici De Noris, Augustiniani, &c. cui titulus est Historia Pelagiana, dissertatio historica de synodo quinta, vindiciæ Augustinianæ. Ad censores libri hujus nuper à summo pontefice delectos. Ab uno theologo Parisiensi An anonymous Neo-Latin informatio (censorial theological memorandum) of twenty-four printed pages, addressed to the five censors appointed by the pope to examine the Augustinian friar Enrico Noris's Historia Pelagiana et dissertatio de synodo V oecumenica and Vindiciae Augustinianae (Padua, 1673). The work accuses Noris of concealing the condemned theology of Cornelius Jansen within his historical scholarship. Its governing charge is that Noris's Augustinian doctrine of grace cannot be distinguished from Jansenism (affinitas). It reduces Noris's teaching to five propositions, documents each with verbatim quotations from the Padua edition under VERBA NORITII headings, and tests them against scholastic grace-terminology (gratia proximè/remotè sufficiens, privatio potentiæ proximè expeditæ ad perseverandum, sensus obvius). Organised as a series of letters (chapters), it marshals Spanish Thomist authorities from the De Auxiliis controversy and the disciplinary precedent of Antoine Arnauld, closing with a demand that Noris condemn the Five Propositions of Jansenius in their author's intended sense and swear the formula of Alexander VII. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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INFORMATIO DE LIBRO R. P. F. HENRICI DE NORIS, AUGUSTINIANI, &c CUI TITULUS EST: HISTORIA PELAGIANA, DISSERTATIO HISTORICA DE SYNODO quinta, Vindiciæ Augustinianæ. AD CENSORES LIBRI HujUS NUPER à summo PONTIFICE DELECTOS. AB UNO THEOLOGO PARISI 735.1-6 REVERENDISSIMI PATRES Venit his proximè elapsis diebus in Galliam nuncius Reverendissimum Patrem Henricum de Noris cupidissimè expetiisse ut suus liber de Historia Pelagiana, cui adjunctæ sunt Dissertatio historica de Synodo quinta, Vindiciæ Augustiniana, recognos- A