EARLY MODERN
SPIRITUALITY
16th-18th Centuries
 

 Karlskirche, Vienna

Sacred Heart & Jesuits


EARLY MODERN SPIRITUALITY spans the period from the Reformation to the French Revolution.  There are roughly four emphases, some of which provide  with both heretical and orthodox manifestations


 1. CONTINUATION of
            MEDIEVAL ASCETICAL PRACTICES


JANSENISM; TRAPPISTS;
M
AURISTS and BOLLANDISTS on ACADEMIC ASCETICISM


 2. DEVELOPMENT and POPULARIZATION
            of
CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY


CARMELITE (John, Teresa);

QUIETISM
(Molinos; Guyon; Fenelon)


 3. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES (BIBLICAL/FORMAL)


GERTRUDE/CISNEROS/JESUIT SPIRITUALITY
and other formal EXERCISES (Salesian, etc.)

 


 4. AFFECTIVE MEDITATION


a) SACRED HEART

Medieval Origins - Gertrude/Mechtild/Bonaventure
John Eudes and Margaret Mary

b) EUCHARISTIC Devotions

c) Francis de Sales/Br. Lawrence


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