The Autobiography of Madame Guyon" is a profound spiritual work written by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, commonly known as Madame Guyon. In her autobiography, Madame Guyon shares her deep devotion to God and her quest for spiritual union with the Divine. She delves into her contemplative prayer practices, her encounters with divine love, and her reflections on the nature of faith and spirituality. Madame Guyon's writings emphasize the importance of interior transformation and self-surrender in the pursuit of spiritual growth. She explores the concept of "the interior life," a state of deep communion with God that transcends external religious practices and rituals. The autobiography also sheds light on Madame Guyon's encounters with religious authorities and the challenges she faced due to her controversial beliefs. Despite facing criticism and even imprisonment, Madame Guyon remained steadfast in her commitment to her spiritual path. "The Autobiography of Madame Guyon" has had a lasting impact on Christian mysticism and contemplative spirituality. Her writings have inspired countless individuals seeking a deeper connection with the divine and a more intimate understanding of the transformative power of faith. Madame Guyon's autobiography is considered a classic in spiritual literature, valued for its poetic prose, profound insights, and timeless wisdom. It continues to resonate with readers across different religious traditions, offering guidance and inspiration for those on their own spiritual journeys.
This volume contains two timeless classics on inner prayer and experiencing God from the woman who "loved Christ too much": Experiencing Union with God through Inner Prayer and The Way and Results of that Union. In a time when her church focused on external works, Madame Jeanne Guyon looked into the heart of the matter and found that it's the prayers of the soul that God desires. For daring to teach this to the mass of people "who knew not God in their hearts," she was once imprisoned by her own church leaders for seven years--four of those years in the notorious Bastille in Paris, France.
The first English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Guyon describes her confinement between 1695 and 1703 in various prisons, including the dreaded Bastille, and the introduction provides a comprehensive context for the historical, literary, and theological aspects of Guyon's writing.
In addition to achieving a profound intimacy with God, her life fulfilled an apostolic vocation that provoked a showdown between the French King (Louis XIV) and the Papacy, between Catholic orthodoxy and its own mystical traditions, between the Church and the protestant mystical movements that were born in that era. She did all this quite accidentally, in profound subjection to her sense of the will of God in her. By her accidental bumbling ... she exposed the banality and hypocrisy of religion in her time and the hollowness of the French Court, while at the same time demonstrating what it might mean to live one's life in total accord with God, in a state of what she called "l'amour pur"--A love of God untainted by any hope or expectation of what we may want God to do for us. The historical scope and significance of Madame Guyon's life is not apparent in her Autobiography. The reader will need to wade into the formidable and acerbic body of scholarly commentary to go further. But the publishers ... correctly sense that the freshness and sincerity of Madame Guyon's story and worldview, told in her own words, needs little in the way of historical context. This book will challenge you to surrender to the divine inside of you ..."--Amazon.com.
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. Finally 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 Commentaries on Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians with Explanations and Reflections on the Interior Life.
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The King of France ordered Mme. Guyon to appear before Archbishop Bossuet and two other priests for interrogation. This would be a fateful event for Mme. Guyon, for the results of that interrogation would decide whether or not she would be imprisoned.
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