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Michael Baius (
1513 -
September 16,
1589) was a
Belgian theologian. He came up with the school of thought
Baianism.
He was born at Meslin L'Eveque near
Ath in
Hainaut as Michel De Bay. Educated at the
Catholic University of Leuven, he studied
philosophy and
theology with distinguished success, and was rewarded by a series of academic appointments. In
1552 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, appointed him professor of
scriptural interpretation in the university. In
1563 he was nominated one of the Belgian representatives at the council of
Trent, but arrived too late to take an important part in its deliberations. Indeed, there was resistance to his presence at the Council, and was allowed to attend only under the auspices of the King of Spain. The Council Fathers looked upon him with not a little suspicion. At
Leuven, however, he obtained a great name as a leader in the anti-scholastic reaction of the
16th century. The champions of this reaction fought under the banner of
Augustine of Hippo though paradoxically undermined Augustine's doctrine of grace; as a result, Baius' heterodox-Augustinian predilections brought him into conflict with
Rome on questions of grace, free-will and the like. In various respects, Baius was rightly seen as
Pelagian. In
1567 Pope Pius V condemned seventy-nine propositions from his writings in the
papal bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus. To this Baius submitted; though certain indiscreet utterances on the part of himself and his supporters led to a renewal of the condemnation in
1579 by
Pope Gregory XIII. Baius, however, was allowed to retain his professorship, and even became chancellor of Leuven in
1575.
He died, still holding these two offices, in
1589. His writings are described by
Adolf Harnack as a curious mixture of Catholic orthodoxy and unconscious tendencies to
Protestantism. His principal works were published in a collected form at
Cologne,
1696; some large treatises were excluded. There is a study of both books and author by Linsenmann,
Michael Baius und die Grundlegung des Jansenismus, published at
Tübingen in
1867. Baius is often seen in his relation to the latter movement of
Jansenism and the
Port Royal theologians such as
Blaise Pascal.
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