The pure love of Madame Guyon : the Great Conflict in King Louis XIV's court / Nancy C. James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Nancy C., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717.

Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte.

Quietism.

France--Politics and government--17th century.

France.

Politics and government.

Quietism--France--17th century.

Physical Description:

xii, 119 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, [2007]

Summary:

In seventeenth-century France, Madame Guyon wrote about the concept of "pure love." "Love pure and holy, is a deathless fire," she wrote, and is "ethereal fare." Her popular books spread quickly through Europe and the New World, drawing the attention of Louis XIV and the court at Versailles. The Inquisition attacked her writing and concepts, resulting in her decade long incarceration, including years in the Bastille. Archbishop F nelon defended Guyon while the leading cleric, Bishop Bossuet, demanded that the Vatican condemn F nelon and Guyon as heretics. A contemporaneous historian wrote a history of the "Great Conflict" between Guyon, Bossuet, F nelon, and the Vatican entitled Supplement to the Life of Madame Guyon, which is regarded as having been written in the eighteenth-century. Professor Nancy C. James's translation of this manuscript from the Bodleian Library at Oxford University is featured in this book, coupled with an analysis of the powerful theology of Guyon that influenced both the growth of the Quakers and Romanticism. This history addresses roots of our social conflicts as individual consciences struggle against destructive political power.

Contents:

Historical perspective on the Great Conflict

Madame Guyon's interior life

Guyon's theology of the Holy Spirit

A University of Oxford manuscript about Madame Guyon

Madame Guyon : spirituality for extreme times

Afterword / by the Rev. John M. Graham

Appendix : The Oxford manuscript translated : Supplement to the life of Madame Guyon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [115]) and index.

Contains:

Supplement to the life of Madame Guyon.

ISBN:

9780761837572

0761837574

OCLC:

154691569