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This work provides an introduction to the history and major themes of the 17th-century French School of Spirituality and its contemporary relevance. Included are works of Pierre de Berulle (1575-1629), Madeleine de Saint-Joseph, Jean-Jacques Olier and John Eudes.
Pierre de Bérulle (1575?1629) is one of the foremost personalities of early modern Catholicism. As the founder of the "French school" of spirituality, he has exercised a profound influence on the Church from the seventeenth century to the present day. Until now, however, very little of Bérulle's writings have been available in English. This volume provides the first complete English translation of his best-known work, first printed in Paris in 1623 and titled Discourses on the State and Grandeurs of Jesus, by the Ineffable Union of the Deity with Humanity, and the Submission and Servitude that Is Due Him and His Most Holy Mother in Response to This Wondrous State. Composed in his maturity,...
"Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629) is one of the foremost personalities of early modern Catholicism. As the founder of the "French school" of spirituality, he has exercised a profound influence on the Church from the seventeenth century to the present day. Until now, however, very little of Bérulle's writings have been available in English. This volume provides the first complete English translation of his best-known work, first printed in Paris in 1623 and titled Discourses on the State and Grandeurs of Jesus, by the Ineffable Union of the Deity with Humanity, and the Submission and Servitude that Is Due Him and His Most Holy Mother in Response to This Wondrous State. Composed in his maturity, this work expresses Bérulle's theology of the Man-God, whose self-emptying has enabled us to become "capable" of God"--
This study is concerned with the evolving spirituality of the Congregation of the Oratory of Jesus under Pierre de Berulle and Charles de Condren in relation to the social and political environment of seventeenth-century France. The mentalite of the Congregation is shown to be principally that of sections of the clergy, robe nobility, officiers, bourgeois, and professionals, in opposition to the Jesuits and the emerging absolutist state.
The widely-reported crisis facing the Roman Catholic priesthood has brought to the fore fundamental questions regarding the theology of the ministerial priesthood. A return to traditional sources has been proposed as one means of inspiration and renewal. The particular spiritual theology of priesthood proposed by the founder of the French school of spirituality, cardinal and statesman Pierre de Berulle (1575-1629), had a major influence on seminary formation as late as the era leading up to the Second Vatican Council. Newly reflected, in part, in Pope St. John Paul II's post-synodal exhortation Pastore Dabo Vobis, this spiritual theology of priesthood again enjoys a wide appreciation. This m...