The crisis of mysticism quietism in seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, and France
This is the first book in English in seventy years to give a full account of the struggle over mystical sirituality that tore the Catholic Church apart at the end of the seventeenth century, resulting in papal condemnations, scores of spiritual books being put on the Index of forbidden books, and th...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
2021
Crossroad Publishing Company |
| Schriftenreihe: | McGinn, Bernard 1937- The presence of God.
vol. 7 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This is the first book in English in seventy years to give a full account of the struggle over mystical sirituality that tore the Catholic Church apart at the end of the seventeenth century, resulting in papal condemnations, scores of spiritual books being put on the Index of forbidden books, and the decline of mysticism in Catholicism for almost two centuries. From the second quarter of the seventeenth century on various mystical authors were accused of over-emphasizing the interior prayer of quiet to the detriment of the active obligations and duties of all believers. In the last quarter of the century these accusations increased and were augmented by charges of immoral teaching against a Spanish priest residing in Rome, Miguel Molinos, and even an Italian Cardinal, Pier Matteo Petrucci. Both were condemned in 1687. During the next decade attacks for similiar mistaken teaching about the prayer of quiet, as well as views about a love so pure that it even gave up hope for salvation, were made against French mystics, especially Madame Jeanne Guyon, François Malaval, and Archbishop François Fenelon, whose mystical teachings were censured in 1699. The result was a true crisis in the history of mysticism. |
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| Beschreibung: | xx, 378 pages |
| ISBN: | 0824504674 0-8245-0467-4 9780824504670 978-0-8245-0467-0 |