Talk:Formulary controversy

Needs clarity
The Formulary Controversy was not a battle about theology between Jansenists and Jesuits. It was a 17th and 18th century Jansenist recusancy of the Formula of Submission for the Jansenists by a group of Catholic ecclesiastical personnel and teachers who did not accept that their beliefs, about the nature of man and grace, were heretical as the Holy See declared. Later, assent to the Formula of Submission for the Jansenists became a French law. For example, the lead paragraph is:

Yet, in the body, the article states that

and that

and that

and that

and in the closing paragraph that

The Jansenism article dates the Formulary controversy to 1664–1669, but it states, about Vineam Domini Sabaoth, that "Louis XIV promulgated the bull as binding law in France". So clearly the controversy remained in 1705. I cannot find a reference to the law or if it was repealed before the dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution but there is no reason to believe that the controversy ended in 1705.

Also, the paragraphs do not seem to be in chronological order. The article needs work. —BoBoMisiu (talk) 19:35, 8 November 2014 (UTC)