Michael Baius

Michael Bajus (actually Michael de Bay, Melin * 1513 in Hainault, † December 16 1589 in Leuven ), was one of the most important theologians of the Catholic Church in the 16th century.

Life

Born in 1513 to Meslin -l'Évêque in Hainault, he became in 1551 professor of theology at the University of Leuven. With his colleague John Hessels he wore before the Augustinian doctrines of divine grace and therefore was violently attacked by the pelagianisierenden Franciscans, but nevertheless sent with Hessels 1563 as a delegate to the Council of Trent.

Then rejected in 1567 Pius V. 76 sets of Bajus recent writings. The bull was first published, as Bajus, who had been subjected to obedience, claimed that those sentences were not his teaching. The university refused to sign the " bull", and in 1578 even Bajus Chancellor of the University of Leuven. The dispute flared up violently than Bajus had in 1587 with his colleagues 34 sets of the Jesuit Lessius Leonhardus rejected as Pelagian and immoral. He died on 16 December 1589th

His teaching ( Bajanismus ) from sin, free will and grace, with which he also joined the denial of papal infallibility and the Immaculate Conception of Mary and the claim that the episcopal authority was directly from God was looking for, later in Jansenism to to get ecclesiastical prestige and recognition.

Works

The works of Bajus issued by Gerberon (Cologne 1696 ).