Augustinus (Jansenist book)

Augustinus seu doctrina Sancti Augustini de humanae naturae sanitate, aegritudine, medicina adversus Pelagianos et Massilianses, (transl.

Published posthumously in Louvain by Jacobus Zegers in 1640, it was in three parts: It began with the proposition that Augustine of Hippo was a man chosen by God to reveal the doctrine of grace.

Thus, by this logic, any later Catholic teaching contrary to Augustine's work should be revised to match it.

The text stoked the theological controversies that raged in France and much of Europe after the spread of Jansenism.

Five of the books' propositions were condemned as heretical in the apostolic constitution Cum occasione promulgated in 1653 by Pope Innocent X.