A01=Patricia A. Ward
Author_Patricia A. Ward
Cambray
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devotional
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French
Guyon
Protestant Christianity
Quietism
seventeenth century
spirituality
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- ISBN 9781481311106
- Weight: 435g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2018
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de F?®nelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional literature--one that continues to influence American evangelicals and charismatic Christians today. Down a winding (and fascinating) historical path, Ward traces how the lives and writings of these two somewhat obscure Catholic believers in Quietism came to such prominence in American spirituality--offering, in part, a fascinating glance at the role of women in the history of devotional writing.
Patricia A. Ward is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University where she served as Director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies and Chair of the Department of French and Italian. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
