Jansenist Women Negotiate the Pauline Interdiction
Following Saint Paul, women were excluded from public religious roles and expected to eschew theology for affective devotional practices. The article explores the gender bind this placed on Jansenist nuns and laywomen, who felt compelled to declare their stance, by focusing on Marie-Catherine Hecque...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/aes, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Arts et Savoirs
2016
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Following Saint Paul, women were excluded from public religious roles and expected to eschew theology for affective devotional practices. The article explores the gender bind this placed on Jansenist nuns and laywomen, who felt compelled to declare their stance, by focusing on Marie-Catherine Hecquet. She was pried from a convent and browbeaten into marriage. It compares her to her seventeenth-century models, the Port-Royal nuns in the formulary disputes, and to eighteenth-century nuns who protested against Unigenitus. It examines two kinds of “I” portraits of these women: professions of faith and autobiographical accounts of their persecutions which reveal acute theological learning. |
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