The Autobiography of Madame Guyon - Softcover

De La Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier

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9781530293636: The Autobiography of Madame Guyon

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ISBN 10: 1530293634 ISBN 13: 9781530293636

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism, although she never called herself a Quietist. 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.

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About the Author

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte was born near Paris in 1648. She was a sickly child who married a wealthy neighbor (22 years her senior) when she was 16 years of age. At 28 she was a widow with three small children. At age 47 she was imprisoned because her writings about God and prayer ran contrary to the established church of the time. She lost her freedom for 7 years during which time she continued to write about the God she loved.

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