Antoine Arnauld was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.
11 Facts About Antoine Arnauld
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Antoine Arnauld was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics.
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Antoine Arnauld was born in Paris to the Arnauld family.
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The twentieth and youngest child of the original Antoine Arnauld, he was originally intended for the bar, but decided instead to study theology at the Sorbonne.
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Antoine Arnauld's book, De la frequente Communion, was an important step in making the aims and ideals of this movement intelligible to the general public.
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The Jesuit Nicolas Caussin, former penitentiary to Louis XIII, was charged by his order of writing a defense against Antoine Arnauld's book, titled Reponse au libelle intitule La Theologie morale des Jesuites.
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For more than twenty years Antoine Arnauld dared not appear publicly in Paris, hiding in religious retreat.
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Antoine Arnauld now set to work with Pierre Nicole on a great work against the Calvinist Protestants: La perpetuite de la foi de l'Eglise catholique touchant l'eucharistie.
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Antoine Arnauld was compelled to leave France for the Netherlands, finally settling down at Brussels.
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Antoine Arnauld was one of the first to adopt the philosophy of Rene Descartes, though with certain orthodox reservations relating to Meditations on First Philosophy; and between 1683 and 1685 he had a long battle with Nicolas Malebranche on the relation of theology to metaphysics.
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Antoine Arnauld came to be regarded as important among the mathematicians of his time; one critic described him as the Euclid of the 17th century.