A Short And Easy Method Of Prayer Analysis

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In A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, Madame Guyon touches on how one can accept all things God through prayer. Through the simple steps of meditation and reading accompanied by meditation, Madame Guyon teaches the reader how to use those steps to have a relationship with God. As a person of the Quietism faith in the seventeenth century, Madam Guyon was going against the norm of the church structure. Not only was she advocating people did not need to go to weekly services but she was also going against the male’s leaders of the church. One of the questions this book can help historians to answer is how religion shape everyday life. However, the readers need to keep in mind the biases surrounding this book. This is just one of the many religious …show more content…

She wrote this book in hopes the women at the local convent would be able to understand there is a way to connect to God through prayer. “It is by prayer alone that we are brought into his presence, and maintained in it without interruption,” (Guyon, page 7). Throughout Madame Guyon’s book, she listed out simple steps one can take upon themselves to complete, so they can also have a relationship with God. “There are two ways of introducing a soul into prayer, which should be pursued for some time; the one is meditation, the other is reading accompanied by meditation,” (Guyon page 7). Guyon wrote this book because she wanted people to be able to relate to God and have a simple written text to be able to show the readers just how great his love is. The A Short and Easy Method of Prayer was not to be used as a call of action but, as a way to show women how to have …show more content…

Quietism was spread by Miguel De Molino words and teachings in the seventeenth century Spain. The audience of this book is those who are looking for a connection with God and to understand what it means to have a releationship with God. This book allows historians to better understand the controversies within Catholicism during the seventeenth century. Historians need to be wary of the biases attracted to this book because there is many different viewpoints coming from the 22st century and on how female were viewed in the Middle

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