This article examines the diversity of Enlightenment discourses that were crafted at the Theology Faculty of the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) during a key, and still under-studied, period of its history from approximately 1730 to 1750. In these years, theological discourses developed earlier in the eighteenth century by Jesuits were joined with experimental approaches to physiology, natural philosophy, physics and epistemology, while synthesizing Malebrache, Locke and Newton in apologetically useful ways. These enlightened discourses were adopted by theologians and students at the Sorbonne at time when Jesuit influence was especially strong in the University of Paris, as well as among seminary instructors, thanks to infighting in the Gallican Church over the papal bull Unigenitus. By combining scholarship on the radical Enlightenment, French higher education, the Catholic Enlightenment and the religious origins of the French Revolution with new research, this article shows the extent to which the student experience in Paris in general, and the history of the Sorbonne in particular, merits further examination as an integral part of the public sphere.