Editing Michael Baius (section)

== Career ==
[[File:Michael Bajus.jpg|thumb|left|Michael Baius, age 62]]
In 1563, he was nominated one of the Belgian representatives at the [[Council of Trent]], but arrived too late to play an important part in its deliberations.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Baius, Michael |volume=3 |page=225}}</ref> Indeed, there was resistance to his presence at the Council, and he was allowed to attend only as a theologian of the King of Spain. The Council Fathers looked upon him with not a little suspicion. Just before leaving for Trent, Baius had published his first tracts. The contents of those tracts were not within the programme of the last three sessions of the Council of Trent, so no public discussion of the disputed points took place. It is known, however, that Baius' and Hessels' views were distasteful to the Fathers, and that the Catholic king's prestige alone saved them from formal condemnation.

Baius returned to Louvain in 1564, and published new tracts the same year. At [[Leuven]], he obtained a great name as a leader in the anti-scholastic reaction of the 16th century. The champions of this reaction fought under the banner of [[Augustine of Hippo]] though paradoxically they undermined Augustine's doctrine of grace; as a result, Baius' heterodox-Augustinian predilections brought him into conflict with [[Rome]] on questions of grace, free-will and the like.<ref name="EB1911" /> In various respects, Baius was seen as [[Pelagian]]. Ravestein, who had succeeded Tapper as chancellor, informed Rome, requesting decisive action. On 1 October 1567, [[Pope Pius V]] signed the [[papal bull]] ''Ex omnibus afflictionibus'', in which he condemned seventy-nine propositions from Baius' writings,<ref>Leszek Kolakowski, ''God owes Us Nothing'', (University of Chicago Press, 1998), 4.</ref>{{Clarification needed|date=July 2023}} but without mention of Baius' name. To this Baius submitted; though certain indiscreet utterances on the part of himself and his supporters led to a renewal of the condemnation in 1579 by [[Pope Gregory XIII]]. Baius, however, was allowed to retain his professorship, and even became chancellor of Leuven in 1575.<ref name="EB1911" />