Pure Love of Madame Guyon The Great Conflict in King Louis Xiv's Court

In seventeenth-century France, Madame Guyon wrote about the concept of _pure love._ _Love pure and holy, is a deathless fire,_ she wrote, and is _ethereal fare._ Her popular books spread quickly through Europe and the New World, drawing the attention of Louis XIV and the court at Versailles. The Inquisition attacked her writing and concepts, resulting in her decade long incarceration, including years in the Bastille. Archbishop FZnelon defended Guyon while the leading cleric, Bishop Bossuet, demanded that the Vatican condemn FZnelon and Guyon as heretics.A contemporaneous historian wrote a history of the _Great Conflict_ between Guyon, Bossuet, FZnelon, and the Vatican entitled Supplement to the Life of Madame Guyon, which is regarded as having been written in the eighteenth-century. Professor Nancy C. James's translation of this manuscript from the Bodleian Library at Oxford University is featured in this book, coupled with an analysis of the powerful theology of Guyon that influenced both the growth of the Quakers and Romanticism. This history addresses roots of our social conflicts as individual consciences struggle against destructive political power.James, Nancy C. is the author of 'Pure Love of Madame Guyon The Great Conflict in King Louis Xiv's Court', published 2007 under ISBN 9780761837572 and ISBN 0761837574.