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The burden of her philosophy was "Quietism" -- the absolute submission of the human soul to the will of God.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Their doctrine of "Quietism," or constant, pure love, was liable to create a schism.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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"Quietism" was the brand set upon her written works and the offense that was punished in her person.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873
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Quietism became the subject of a theological debate in which Bossuet and Fénelon were locked in bitter confrontation and resulted in the Church's condemnation of the movement and Mme Guyon's arrest.
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Quietism held that prayer should be as silent and passive as possible while one awaited illumination by the Holy Spirit.
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Quietism held that prayer should be as silent and passive as possible while one awaited illumination by the Holy Spirit.
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Quietism became the subject of a theological debate in which Bossuet and Fénelon were locked in bitter confrontation and resulted in the Church's condemnation of the movement and Mme Guyon's arrest.
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And with Quietism we have a fourth way of explaining evil by denying it's presence in what they do.
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As a theologian convinced of the unambiguousness of Christian concepts, he distrusted the poetical expressions of mystics because they were equivocal, as is shown by the unforgiving position he took toward Quietism -- a querelle in which, as we shall soon see, Mme de Maintenon was herself dangerously implicated.
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As a theologian convinced of the unambiguousness of Christian concepts, he distrusted the poetical expressions of mystics because they were equivocal, as is shown by the unforgiving position he took toward Quietism -- a querelle in which, as we shall soon see, Mme de Maintenon was herself dangerously implicated.
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