The Pure Love of Madame Guyon - The Great Conflict in King Louis XIV's Court (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	June 2007
Authors:	Nancy C James
Dimensions:	231 x 154 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	130
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-3757-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-7618-3757-4
Barcode:	9780761837572

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