Download or read book Jeanne Guyon s Mystical Perfection through Eucharistic Suffering written by Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717), a woman of great wisdom and worship, was filled with the richness of God's grace as she endured hardships and abuse in her married life. Blessed with children and great earthly wealth, she suffered physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually at the hands of her spiritual leaders, imprisoned unjustly for her simple yet solid faith in Christ, her Divine Confidant. Trusting in her Lord, she expressed her insights in commentaries concerning the Scriptures, seeing in them the mysteries of the holy Eucharist, the sacrificial presence of her merciful Savior. Through her intercession, we are inspired to adore the Lord, uniting our suffering to his as she did.

Download or read book Concise View of the Way to God and of the State of Union written by Madame Guyon and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review:Madame Guyon was a spiritual woman who had gone through the fire of suffering. In her spiritual classics, you will gain a lot of insights on how to live a life of sacrifice to God. Today we live in a comfortable world that knows no value of suffering. Read this book to enlighten your soul and mind.Concise View of the Way to God; And Of the State of Union' By Madame Guyon (Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon)(April 18, 1648 - June 9, 1717)This English translation originally appeared in "Spiritual Progress or Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul: from the French of Fenelon and Madame Guyon"; Printed in 1853; Edited by James W. Metcalf.Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Mothe Guyon was the leader of the Quietist movement in France. She studied the works of many saints and was much influenced by St. Francis de Sales, Madame de Chantal, and Thomas a Kempis. At age 16, she married Jacques Guyon, a wealthy man who was 22 years older than her. She went through a lot of suffering in her 12 years of married life. These were years of fruitful spiritual training of her interior life of prayer. At age 28, she became a widow and her public life as an evangelist of Quietism began. Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist with more or less emphasis on intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection. Table of ContentsPART 1 ON THE WAY TO GODChapter 1. The First Degree: ConversionChapter 2. The Second Degree: The Effectual Touch In The WillChapter 3. The Third Degree: Passivity And Interior SacrificeChapter 4. The Fourth Degree: Naked FaithChapter 5. The Fifth Degree: Mystical DeathChapter 6. Union With God: But Not Yet RecognizedPART 2 ON UNION WITH GODChapter 1. The ResurrectionChapter 2. The Life In GodChapter 3. The Transformation

Download or read book Spiritual Torrents written by Jeanne Guyon and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pen of Madame Jeanne Guyon comes this powerful, spiritual autobiography as she recounts her many trials and tribulations. Yet, in spite of the incredible pain and suffering she experienced in this life, she was well aware of God's grace to help her endure the hardships this present world offers. Her trust in God and his workings is both profound and inspiring. Here is an intimate look at a believer who endured countless odds but kept the faith amidst deep suffering. This book will prove to be a courage to anyone who needs divine comfort from the hardships this world offers. Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (more commonly known as "Madame Guyon") (1648 - 1717) lived during the time of King Louis XIV and was enraptured by worldly things for a time. Disenchanted by that lifestyle, Guyon became increasingly interested in spiritual things during her teenage years and later become a leading French mystic in a movement known as Quietism. Her beliefs were considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 until 1703 following the publication of her unauthorized book on Quietism, A Short and Easy Method of Prayer.

Download or read book Spiritual Torrents written by Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte Guyon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing a book on the topic, 'A Short and Easy Method of Prayer.' Guyon believed that one should pray all the time, and that in whatever one does, one should be spending time with God.

Download or read book Jeanne Guyon s Interior Faith written by Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century France, Jeanne Guyon wrote about God, ""I loved him, and I burned with his fire because I loved him, and I loved him in such a way that I could love only him, but in loving him I had no motive save himself."" She called this the pure love of God. Guyon traveled throughout Europe teaching others how to pray and her books became popular bestsellers. She expressed her Christian faith that Jesus Christ lives within our interior life. As Guyon became increasingly popular, the church and state authorities used the power of the Roman Catholic Inquisition and arrested her, charging her with heresy. Guyon spent nearly ten years incarcerated, including five years in the Bastille from 1698-1703. The state authorities judged her innocent. After her release, she lived in Blois on the Loire River and welcomed visitors from Europe and the New World who talked with her about the Christian faith. This is the first English translation of Guyon's Commentary on the Gospel of Luke. ""Jeanne Guyon is worth discovering--a remarkable life, a deep faith, and a capacity for mystical expression that joins the ranks of Mother Julian of Norwich . . . Every good library interested in spirituality and mysticism should have a copy."" --Ian Markham, Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary Nancy Carol James is a priest associate at St. John's, Lafayette Sq., Washington, DC, and works as adjunct faculty at Grand Canyon University. She has written ten books about Jeanne Guyon.

Download or read book Madame Jeanne Guyon written by Madame Jeanne Guyon and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 of Madame Jeanne Guyon's best writings together in one incredible volume: Experiencing Union with God Through Inner Prayer & the Way and Rescues of Union with God.

Download or read book Union with God written by Jeanne Guyon and published by Seedsowers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her writings and her ministry knew a brief period of popularity, making her a friend even of the wife of Louis XIV. She greatly influenced the life of Fenelon one of the two most famous clergymen in France's history, and earned the wrath of the other, Bossuet.

Download or read book Holy Boldness written by Susie C. Stanley and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its inception in the nineteenth century, the Wesleyan/Holiness religious tradition has offered an alternative construction of gender and supported the equality of the sexes. In Holy Boldness, Susie C. Stanley provides a comprehensive analysis of spiritual autobiographies by thirty-four American Wesleyan/Holiness women preachers, published between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. While a few of these women, primarily African Americans, have been added to the canon of American women's autobiography, Stanley argues for the expansion of the canon to incorporate the majority of the women in her study. She reveals how these empowered women carried out public ministries on behalf of evangelism and social justice. The defining doctrine of the Wesleyan/Holiness tradition is the belief in sanctification, or experiencing a state of holiness. Stanley's analysis illuminates how the concept of the sanctified self inspired women to break out of the narrow confines of the traditional "women's sphere" and engage in public ministries, from preaching at camp meetings and revivals to ministering in prisons and tenements. Moreover, as a result of the Wesleyan/Holiness emphasis on experience as a valid source of theology, many women preachers turned to autobiography as a way to share their spiritual quest and religiously motivated activities with others. In such writings, these preachers focused on the events that shaped their spiritual growth and their calling to ministry, often giving only the barest details of their personal lives. Thus, Holy Boldness is not a collective biography of these women but rather an exploration of how sanctification influenced their evangelistic and social ministries. Using the tools of feminist theory and autobiographical analysis in addition to historical and theological interpretation, Stanley traces a trajectory of Christian women's autobiographies and introduces many previously unknown spiritual autobiographies that will expand our understanding of Christian spirituality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. The Author: Susie C. Stanley is professor of historical theology at Messiah College. She is the author of Feminist Pillar of Fire: The Life of Alma White.

Download or read book Autobiography of Madame Guyon written by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Quakers Reading Mystics written by Michael Birkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the reception of mystical texts among Quakers, looking at Robert Barclay and John Cassian, Sarah L. Grubb and Jeanne Guyon, Caroline Stephen and Johannes Tauler, Rufus Jones and Jacob Boehme, and Teresina Havens and Buddhist texts.

Download or read book The Mystical Sense of the Sacred Scriptures written by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Autobiography of Madame Guyon written by Jeanne Guyon and published by Nuvision Publications. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Spiritual Torrents written by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART IChapter I 6THE DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH SOULS ARE LED TO SEEK AFTER GOD Chapter II 8OF THE FIRST WAY, WHICH IS ACTIVE AND MEDITATIVE Chapter III 14 OF THE SECOND WAY, WHICH IS THE PASSIVE WAY OF LIGHT Chapter IV 19 OF THE THIRD WAY, WHICH IS THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH, AND OF ITS FIRST DEGREE Chapter V 27IMPERFECTIONS OF THIS FIRST DEGREE Chapter VI 35 SECOND DEGREE OF THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH Chapter VII 42SECT. I 42COMMENCEMENT OF THE THIRD DEGREE OF THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH-FIRST DEGREE OF THE SPOLIATION OF THE SOUL SECT. II 50SECOND DEGREE OF THE SPOLIATION OF THE SOUL SECT. III 52THIRD DEGREE OF SPOLIATION SECT. IV 58ENTRANCE INTO MYSTICAL DEATH Chapter VIII 62 THIRD DEGREE OF THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH, IN ITS CONSUMMATION Chapter IX 67 FOURTH DEGREE OF THE PASSIVE WAY OF FAITH, WHICH IS THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE DIVINE LIFE PART IIChapter I 77MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF SEVERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RESURRECTION LIFE Chapter II 83STABILITY, EXPERIENCE, ELEVATION, AND EXTREME PURITY OF THE ABANDONED SOUL Chapter III 89 PERFECT UNION OR DEIFORMITY Chapter IV 94 ACTIONS AND SUFFERINGS OF THOSE IN A STATE OF UNION WITH GODExcerpt: SOULS UNDER DIVINE INFLUENCE ARE IMPELLED TO SEEK AFTER GOD, BUT IN DIFFERENT WAYS-REDUCED TO THREE, AND EXPLAINED BY A SIMILITUDE. AS soon as a soul is brought under divine influence, and its return to God is true and sincere, after the first cleansing which confession and contrition have effected, God imparts to it a certain instinct to return to Him in a most complete manner, and to become united to Him. The soul feels then that it was not created for the amusements and trifles of the world, but that it has a centre and an end, to which it must be its aim to return, and out of which it can never find true repose. This instinct is very deeply implanted in the soul, more or less in different cases, according to the designs of God; but all have a loving impatience to purify themselves, and to adopt the necessary ways and means of returning to their source and origin, like rivers, which, after leaving their source, flow on continuously, in order to precipitate themselves into the sea. You will observe that some rivers move gravely and slowly, and others with greater velocity; but there are rivers and torrents which rush with frightful impetuosity, and which nothing can arrest. All the burdens which might be laid upon them, and the obstructions which might be placed to impede their course, would only serve to redouble their violence. It is thus with souls. Some go on quietly towards perfection, and never reach the sea, or only very late, contented to lose themselves in some stronger and more rapid river, which carries them with itself into the sea. Others, which form the second class, flow on more vigorously and promptly than the first. They even carry with them a number of rivulets; but they are slow and idle in comparison with the last class, which rush onward with so much impetuosity, that they are utterly useless: they are not available for navigation, nor can any merchandise be trusted upon them, except at certain parts and at certain times. These are bold and mad rivers, which dash against the rocks, which terrify by their noise, and which stop at nothing. The second class are more agreeable and more useful; their gravity is pleasing, they are all laden with merchandise, and we sail upon them without fear or peril. Let us look, with divine aid, at these three classes of persons, under the three figures that I have proposed; and we will commence with the first, in order to conclude happily with the last.

Download or read book Experiencing God Through Prayer written by Madame Jeanne Guyon and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this upbeat, abridged edition of the classic, Jeanne Guyon explains short, easy, and effective methods of prayer. She discovered the great difference between praying to God and experiencing God through prayer. She shares secrets of this higher plane of fellowship with God. In addition, she shows you how to enjoy God's presence, grow in your knowledge of the Word, experience rest from worry, and gain wisdom and understanding. You will discover the joy of a quiet heart and mind, learn how to survive your "dry" periods of prayer, and become content where God has placed you. The sparkling gems of truth in this book were never meant to be read and put back on the bookshelf. They will compel you to share them with the world.

Download or read book Mystics of the Christian Tradition written by Steven Fanning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition. Full of colourful detail, this book examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity.

Download or read book The Varieties of Religious Experience written by William James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."