Francois Fenelon A Biography

Author : Peter Gorday
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 161261115X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francois Fenelon A Biography written by Peter Gorday and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the wisdom of this controversial theologian whose counsel and meditations have found a wide audience for more than three centuries. François Fénelon was a seventeenth-century French archbishop who rose to a position of influence in the court of Louis XIV. Amid the splendor and decadence of Versailles, Fénelon became a wise mentor to many members of the king’s court as well as to the controversial Madame Guyon. Later exiled from Versailles for political reasons, Fénelon set out to improve the lot of peasants of his diocese and to deepen the spiritual life of all with whom he came in contact. Until his death, he corresponded with those at court who had become his spiritual “children.” Twenty-first century Christians are rediscovering the wisdom of this spiritual thinker. Together with Pascal—who was an old man in Fenelon’s youth—he showed how it was possible to have devotion and faith in the Age of Enlightenment. He battled heresies, faced charges of heresy himself, and wrote masterful books of insight into the spiritual life. “Peter Gorday’s life of Fenelon is a gem. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in Fenelon or Christian mysticism in general.” –Dr. Chad Helms, Professor of Modern Foreign Languages, Presbyterian College, and editor of Fenelon: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality) “Gorday traces the complex situation in Fenelon’s time and the varying perspectives of his interpreters. He declares him not cunning but tough as a thinker. In this book, we get not only a fascinating story but also a subtle guide to self-examination.” -Dr. Eugene TeSelle, Emeritus, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Author : Francois Fenelon
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 1603743480
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let Go written by Francois Fenelon and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 1973-04-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you struggle through family problems, battle with the tensions of raising children, or find yourself overwhelmed with pressures on the job? Are personal failures and disappointments on the increase as you face each day? What a fountain of life it would be to discover how to let go of those distresses and learn to embrace the joy and peace that God has promised! With amazing insight, Fénelon speaks firmly yet lovingly to those whose lives have been an uphill climb, and reveals just how to Let Go!

Author : François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Publisher : Seedsowers
ISBN 13 : 9780940232495
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book The Seeking Heart written by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and published by Seedsowers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Fenelon has stood for spiritual depth and insight for 300 years. Seeking Christians throughout the years have turned to his writings for guidance and help in their quest for a deeper walk with Christ. Here are his works and letters.

Author : Francois Fenelon
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612611796
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Fenelon written by Francois Fenelon and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most engaging collection of the French mystics’ writings now available Twenty-first century Christians are now discovering the wisdom of this controversial theologian and spiritual thinker. Fénelon showed how it was possible to have devotion and faith in the original Age of Reason. In many respects, rationality still rules today in religion and culture, and as a result, Fénelon speaks to modern Christians wanting deeper faith and a meaningful inner life. His writings have never been as accessible as they are now in these lively new translations. The Complete Fénelon includes more than one hundred of Fénelon’s letters of spiritual counsel, as well as meditations on eighty-five other topics. Also translated here into English for the first time are Fénelon’s personal reflections on twenty-one seasons and holidays of the Christian year. An introduction from bestselling translator Robert J. Edmonson and in-depth recommended reading and bibliography make this the first place to start in any study of Francois Fénelon.

Author : Bridge Logos Publishers
Publisher : Bridge Logos Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780882708935
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best of Fenelon written by Bridge Logos Publishers and published by Bridge Logos Foundation. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fenelon was a spiritual compatriot of Madame Jeanne Guyon, and like her sought the way to the deeper inner life of total abandonment to God in Christ. And like Madame Guyon, he found it, and taught it to hundreds in his lifetime, and to hundreds-of-thousands since then through his writings.

Author : Stafford Harry Northcote St. Cyres (Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francois de Fenelon written by Stafford Harry Northcote St. Cyres (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Gorday
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781557258014
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book François Fénelon written by Peter Gorday and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today, Christians are rediscovering the wisdom of Francois Fenelon, a controversial theologian and spiritual thinker. Fenelon showed how it was possible to have devotion and faith in the Age of Enlightenment. He battled heresies, faced charges of heresy himself, and wrote masterful books of insight into the spiritual life. This is the first biography to be written about the 17th century French archbishop whose letters of counsel and spiritual wisdom have left a legacy of friendship with God"--

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944678
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Rings written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey,The Adventures of Telemachus—a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years—resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggles to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.

Author : François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instructions for the Education of a Daughter written by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gene Edwards
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768407664
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Days in the Secret Place written by Gene Edwards and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Days of Journeying Deeper Into Gods Presence ...featuring Devotions by Christian Mystics: Miguel de Molinos, Jeanne Guyon and Francois Fenelon Bored with the exercises of religious ritualism and parched by the teaching of dry dogma, man searches for a way back home to the place of Gods presence. Unfortunately, this journey inward is a road less traveled and too few have found the way. Gene Edwards, author of Divine Romance, has gathered together key writings from three notable Christian mystics from the seventeenth century: Miguel de Molinos, Madame Jeanne Guyon, and Francois Fenelon. Over the next 100 days, you will embark on a journey into the secret place by using this Christian mystic devotional. These pioneers of Gods presence will lead you into new depths of prayer and meditation as they give you a taste of the deep fellowship with God that is available for you today! Are you living in a drought of spiritual dryness? Are you lost in the depths of spiritual loneliness? Are you longing for a moment of spiritual reality? Then 100 Days in a Secret Place is your road back home to the place of His presence!