God Owes Us Nothing, Leszek Kolakowski, suggests that the Pope ended up condemning a Augustinian, Catholic understanding of grace. It does proceed carefully. For instance it shows the weakness of Arnaud's contrived defense of Jansenism, interpreting the Pope as having a meaning he could not have had, and how the royal chaplain Fr Annatus, who strongly supported the efforts against Jansenism, was quite careful not to caricature the doctrinal stance of Jansenius and the Arnauds. However, the author suggests that Annatus was wrong that a Papal condemnation of the five propositions in the sense of Jansenius, because Augustine could not be heretical. It suggests there was limited differences between Calvinism and Jansenism, that their positions on the iresistabilty of grace was 'a distinction without a difference.' The author notes how the 'Calvinist Pope' Jurieu who made a strong case for the conformability of Calvinism to Augustinianism, and who scornfully opined that the Pope barely understood the issue at hand, that he, 'understood of little of them as if they had spoken to him in Arabic.'
It does suggest the wisdom of an earlier Papal suppression of Jesuit-Dominican debates on those topics and matters close to it.
