Abstract
This article poses a number of questions around its subject matter, from which I develop some explanatory frameworks and further conceptualizations of Quietism. It addresses, primarily, the questions: What is Quietism? What were the issues of power and authority leading to the infamous Quietist Controversy in late seventeenth-century France? And subsequently, what is the nature of Quietism’s connection to the Quaker theological tradition?
Keywords
Madame Jeanne Guyon, Isaac Penington, Mysticism, Robert Barclay, George Fox, Francois Fenelon
How to Cite
Pryce, E., (2010) “‘Upon the Quakers and the Quietists’: Quietism, Power and Authority in Late Seventeenth-Century France, and its Relation to Quaker History and Theology”, Quaker Studies 14(2), 212–223. doi: https://doi.org/10.3828/quaker.14.2.212
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