Michael Bajus

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Michael Bajus (actually Michael de Bay ; * 1513 in Melin in Hainaut , † December 16, 1589 in Leuven ) was one of the most important theologians of the Catholic Church in the 16th century . His teaching came to be known as bayanism.

Michel De Bay

Life and teaching

Michael Bajus became professor of theology at the University of Leuven in 1551 .

With his colleague Johann Hessels (1522–1566) he presented the Augustinian teachings of divine grace and was therefore violently attacked by the pelagianizing Franciscans, but nevertheless sent with Hessels in 1563 as a member of the Tridentine Council .

Then in 1567 Pius V rejected 76 sentences from Baju's more recent writings. The bull was not published until Bajus, who had obediently submitted, claimed that those sentences were not his teaching. The university refused to sign the "bull", and in 1578 Bajus even became chancellor of the University of Leuven. The dispute flared up more violently when Bajus and his colleagues had rejected 34 sentences by the Jesuit Leonhardus Lessius as Pelagian and immoral in 1587 .

His doctrine ( bayanism ; French baïanisme ) of sin, free will and grace, with which he also combined the denial of papal infallibility and the immaculate conception of Mary, as well as the assertion that episcopal power is directly from God, sought later to achieve ecclesiastical validity and recognition in Jansenism .

Works

The works of Michael Bajus were published by Gabriel Gerberon (1628–1711) (Cologne 1696).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Bajus, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michael de Bay; Baius, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1513
PLACE OF BIRTH Melin , Hainaut
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1589
Place of death Lions