Guyon's theology and spiritual writing opened new doors to
people from all walks of life who yearned for spiritual joy and
wisdom. These new translations include her popular "A Short and
Easy Method of Prayer," as well as her biblical commentary on the
Song of Songs, where poetic imagery comes to life with its
refreshing sense of God's desire to join with all humanity. Guyon
always writes of the pure love of God, like a human kiss, that
leads to the fulfilling union with the divine. "The Complete Madame
Guyon" also presents examples of her passionate poetry, some of
which has never before been translated into English. Guyon
expresses the range of feelings involved with living in a
relationship with God and her ideas about the real involvement of
the divine within the human heart. Nancy James's historical
introduction explains the events of Guyon's life first as an
aristocratic wife and mother of five, and later as a widow
traveling around Europe as an author, who ended up incarcerated in
the Bastille by the direct order of Louis XIV. Guyon suffered ten
years of incarceration, along with accusations of heresy. Cleared
of all of charges at the end of her life, in all of her writing
Madame Guyon testified to the goodness and holiness of God.
"Thanks to Nancy James's scholarly labors, Jeanne Marie Bouvier
de la Mothe, more widely known as Madame Guyon (1648-1717) will
hopefully become a household word, at least among students of
mysticism. By no means an uncontroversial thinker, twice imprisoned
for her allegedly heretical ideas, and defended by one bishop
(Fenelon) and attacked by another (Bossuet), Madame Guyon's ideas,
especially her concept of self-annihilation in the soul's union
with God, will likely arouse challenge, even today. We owe Dr.
James an enormous debt for her translation of Madame Guyon's works
and popularization of her ideas. Through Dr. James's work we can
gain insights into not only mystical theology but also
seventeenth-century French secular and ecclesiastical
politics."
-- Dr. Peter C. Phan, The Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic
Social Thought, Theology Department, Georgetown University
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