Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability of Christian veneration. She had an unsteady and disorganized childhood, was tormented by sickness and abuse, and was imprisoned for years by the highest church authorities. She gave up her worldly goods at the demands of this church which led to her impoverishment. She survived her psychological and physical ruination by conquering pretentious royal conspiracies and reviling the malignancy of the papal inquisition. She committed her life to writing meditative books that illustrated profound truths lost to religious monarchs in a maze of their own confusion. She was finally condemned as a heretic, but her writings were so dynamic they shocked the whole country and even reached the indecorous palace of King Louis XIV. This is the story of a solitary woman whose pious diligence and dedication laid the bedrock of virtous obedience to the deeds of contemporaneous ministry.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.

During the era of Louis XIV, Madame Guyon wrote her theological ideas about pure love. Her books A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, Spiritual Torrents, and her Autobiography became popular throughout Europe and the New World. Her fame led to her personal Inquisition and decade long incarceration. Madame Guyon’s influence on Romanticism and Protestantism endow her books with both historical and spiritual influence. This anthology presents excerpts from Madame Guyon’s major works. The introduction explains the historical struggle about Quietism (called the Great Conflict) of which she was a part, as well as placing her in the apophatic mystic tradition. This work includes translations of major portions of A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, Spiritual Torrents, Autobiography, and Commentary on Song of Songs. Portions from Guyon’s translated poetry and letters of spiritual direction complete this volume. Annotations provide needed information to understand both the history of this important era and Guyon’s influential theology of pure love.

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