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Jeanne Guyon

Born: 1648
Died: 1717

French Catholic mystic whose teaching on simple, interior prayer was condemned as Quietist and led to her imprisonment in the Bastille; her Short and Easy Method of Prayer was later read widely among Protestant pietists, Quakers and Methodists.

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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer1685

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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer

Madame Guyon's little manual of inward prayer, teaching simple recollected attention to God, abandonment and the prayer of quiet; condemned with other Quietist writings at the end of the seventeenth century, it was widely read by later Protestant pietists and holiness writers.

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