tion>Jules Michelet
Priests, Women, and Families
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664565037
Table of Contents
PREFACES.
Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
Memoir
PART I.
ON DIRECTION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
Religious Re-action in 1600—Influence of the Jesuits over Women and Children—Savoy; the Vaudois; Violence and Gentleness—St. François de Sales
St. François de Sales and Madame de Chantal—Visitation—Quietism—Results of Religious Direction
Loneliness of Woman—Easy Devotion—Worldly Theology of the Jesuits—Women and Children advantageously made use of—Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648—Gallant Devotion—Religious Novels—Casuists
Convents—Convents in Paris—Convents contrasted; the Director—Dispute about the Direction of the Nuns—The Jesuits Triumph through Calumny
CHAPTER V.
Re-action of Morality—Arnaud, 1643; Pascal, 1657—The Jesuits lose Ground—They gain over the King and the Pope—Discouragement of the Jesuits; their Corruption—They Protect the Quietists—Desmarets—Morin burnt, 1663—Immorality of Quietism
CHAPTER VI.
Continuation of Moral Re-action—Tartuffe, 1664—Real Tartuffes—Why Tartuffe is not a Quietist
CHAPTER VII.
Apparition of Molinos, 1675—His Success at Rome—French Quietists—Madame Guyon and her Director—"The Torrents"—Mystic Death—Do we return from it?
CHAPTER VIII.
Fenelon as Director—His Quietism—"Maxims of Saints," 1697—Fenelon and Madame de la Maisonfort
CHAPTER IX.
Bossuet as Director—Bossuet and Sister Cornuau—Bossuet's Imprudence—He is a Quietist in Practice—Devout Direction inclines to Quietism—Moral Paralysis
CHAPTER X.
Molinos' "Guide"—Part
