Explanation of the Maxims of the Saints on the Interior Life (1697) — condemned book
This book is in French.
Fénelon’s book on pure love, which set off the quarrel over quietism with Bossuet. CONDEMNED by Innocent XII in the brief Cum alias of 12 March 1699 (23 propositions censured); Fénelon submitted publicly in his pastoral letter of 9 April 1699 (see the book “The documents of the condemnation”). A historical document, to be read together with that condemnation: it does not set out the Church’s teaching. Text of the first edition (Paris, Aubouin, 1697) after Albert Cherel’s critical edition (Bloud, 1911), without the apparatus of variants.
Contents
Source: archive.org OCR of the 1911 edition: preface, introduction, variants, notes and appendices dropped; page numbers and variant markers removed; the 1697 spelling kept. Residual OCR errors remain (see PROBLEMS.md). · Cross-check witness, not imported (poor OCR of long-s type).