This book focuses on the development of spiritual direction in the seventeenth century, France. By introducing devotional reading into spiritual conversations, Jesuits transformed an earlier Ignatian tradition-which had cultivated subjectivity into a more passive spiritual practice aimed at obedience to a guide.
ISBN:978-2-406-09291-9
ISSN: 2108-9876
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09293-3
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: Littérature du dix-septième siècle, histoire du sujet, catholicisme, histoire de la théologie, histoire de la lecture, histoire de la spiritualité, subjectivation