1. Abandonment to Divine Providence: Life and Times of Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade Father Robert Nixon serves as your guide for The Commentaries: Abandonment to Divine Providence. In the introductory …More
1. Abandonment to Divine Providence: Life and Times of Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Father Robert Nixon serves as your guide for The Commentaries: Abandonment to Divine Providence. In the introductory episode, Father Robert explores the life of the author of the book, Jean-Pierre de Caussade, a relatively little-known 18th-century French Jesuit priest. Discover the origins and structure of this timeless spiritual treatise and begin this season of The Commentaries with a prayer asking for God's guidance in learning to trust in His divine providence completely. Episode 1 covers the Preface. LEARN MORE - USE COUPON CODE COM25 FOR 25% OFF Abandonment to Divine Providence Deluxe Edition - https://bit.ly/3VcQPxU TAN Classics Deluxe Edition Set - https://bit.ly/3Vx8Fx2 Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence - https://bit.ly/4bRf2kg Abandonment to Divine Providence (Paperbound) - https://bit.ly/3x77bju Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence - https://bit.ly/4aUOltV The Soul of the Apostolate - https://bit.ly/3X7blTc Uniformity with God's Will - https://bit.ly/3Vy2CbB The Commentaries is a podcast series from TAN in which you’ll learn how to read and understand history’s greatest Catholic works, from today’s greatest Catholic scholars. In every series of The Commentaries, your expert host will be your personal guide to not just read the book, but to live the book, shining the light of its eternal truths into the darkness of our modern trials and tribulations. Fr. Robert Nixon is your guide for The Commentaries: Abandonment to Divine Providence. Abandonment to Divine Providence is an 18th-century classic that is the answer to modern doubts and anxieties. Author Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade offers the one sure solution to any spiritual difficulty: abandon yourself entirely to God by embracing the duties of your station in life. Join Fr. Robert on this 21-episode journey as he skillfully leads us through the timeless wisdom from the text with a perspective that provides helpful examples and countless ways to apply these lessons in our daily lives. To download your FREE Classic Companion PDF and for updates about new seasons, expert scholars, and exclusive deals for The Commentaries listeners, sign up at TANcommentaries.com And for more great ways to deepen your faith, check out all the spiritual resources available at https://TANBooks.com and use Coupon Code COM25 for 25% off your next order.
Father Robert Nixon serves as your guide for The Commentaries: Abandonment to Divine Providence. In the introductory episode, Father Robert explores the life of the author of the book, Jean-Pierre de Caussade, a relatively little-known 18th-century French Jesuit priest. Discover the origins and structure of this timeless spiritual treatise and begin this season of The Commentaries with a prayer asking for God's guidance in learning to trust in His divine providence completely. Episode 1 covers the Preface. LEARN MORE - USE COUPON CODE COM25 FOR 25% OFF Abandonment to Divine Providence Deluxe Edition - https://bit.ly/3VcQPxU TAN Classics Deluxe Edition Set - https://bit.ly/3Vx8Fx2 Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence - https://bit.ly/4bRf2kg Abandonment to Divine Providence (Paperbound) - https://bit.ly/3x77bju Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence - https://bit.ly/4aUOltV The Soul of the Apostolate - https://bit.ly/3X7blTc Uniformity with God's Will - https://bit.ly/3Vy2CbB The Commentaries is a podcast series from TAN in which you’ll learn how to read and understand history’s greatest Catholic works, from today’s greatest Catholic scholars. In every series of The Commentaries, your expert host will be your personal guide to not just read the book, but to live the book, shining the light of its eternal truths into the darkness of our modern trials and tribulations. Fr. Robert Nixon is your guide for The Commentaries: Abandonment to Divine Providence. Abandonment to Divine Providence is an 18th-century classic that is the answer to modern doubts and anxieties. Author Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade offers the one sure solution to any spiritual difficulty: abandon yourself entirely to God by embracing the duties of your station in life. Join Fr. Robert on this 21-episode journey as he skillfully leads us through the timeless wisdom from the text with a perspective that provides helpful examples and countless ways to apply these lessons in our daily lives. To download your FREE Classic Companion PDF and for updates about new seasons, expert scholars, and exclusive deals for The Commentaries listeners, sign up at TANcommentaries.com And for more great ways to deepen your faith, check out all the spiritual resources available at https://TANBooks.com and use Coupon Code COM25 for 25% off your next order.
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Jean Pierre de Caussade - Wikipedia
Jean Pierre de Caussade (7 March 1675 – 8 December 1751) was a French Jesuit priest and writer. He is especially known for the work ascribed to him known as Abandonment to Divine Providence, and also his work with the Nuns of the Visitation in Nancy, France.
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Jean Pierre de Caussade was born in Cahors, now in Lot, France. He was spiritual director to the …More
Jean Pierre de Caussade - Wikipedia
Jean Pierre de Caussade (7 March 1675 – 8 December 1751) was a French Jesuit priest and writer. He is especially known for the work ascribed to him known as Abandonment to Divine Providence, and also his work with the Nuns of the Visitation in Nancy, France.
Life
Jean Pierre de Caussade was born in Cahors, now in Lot, France. He was spiritual director to the Nuns of the Visitation in Nancy, France, from 1733 to 1740. During this time and after he left Nancy, he wrote letters of instruction to the nuns. Some material ascribed to him was first published in 1861 by Henri Ramière [fr] under the title L’Abandon à la providence divine.
The standard English translation is that of Alga Thorold (1866-1936) published in 1933. A version edited by Fr. John Joyce, S.J., with an introduction by Dom David Knowles (Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge), appeared in 1959 with the title Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence. Knowles places the writings in a line of development of Christian mysticism, as a work of great importance: "we may approach Père de Caussade ... looking back to St. John of the Cross and St. Francis de Sales and forward to St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus." There were no less than twenty-five editions of the work published between 1861 (the Ramière edition) and 1959.
However, according to research on The Treatise on Abandonment to Divine Providence, discussed in a paper by Dominique Salin S.J., emeritus professor at the Faculty of Theology at the Centre Sèvres, published in The Way, 46/2 (April 2007), pp. 21–36, "it now seems almost impossible that the author was in fact the Jesuit Jean-Pierre de Caussade" as "[n]othing in de Caussade's biography would suggest that this man was the author of a famous treatise" and the style of letters of spiritual direction that can genuinely be attributed to de Caussade "is far removed from the lyricism" marking it.
According to Dominique Tronc, a French author and editor of numerous works on Madame Guyon and her spiritual environment, Abandonment to Divine Providence was ″in fact adapted from Madame Guyon″[4] and is based on ″a manuscript by Madame Guyon which was later used by the Jesuit Jean-Pierre de Caussade for a final editing under the title L'abandon à la Providence divine″.
Whoever the author was, he or she (maybe even a certain "lady from Lorraine") believed that the present moment is a sacrament from God and that self-abandonment to it and its needs is a holy state – a belief which, in the theological climate of France at the time, may have been considered close to Quietist heresy. De Caussade himself was forced to withdraw for two years, 1731-1733, as spiritual director of a convent of nuns due to a charge of Quietism, but he was eventually acquitted of the charge.[7] It may have been because of the spectre of being accused of Quietism (with the Church's condemnation of the Quietist movement and condemnation by Pope Innocent XI of the Quietest proponent Miguel de Molinos, and Molinos' death in the prison of Castel Sant'Angelo), the works attributed to de Caussade were kept unpublished until 1861, and even then they were edited by Ramière to protect them from charges of Quietism. A more authoritative version of these notes was published only in 1966. In his writings, the author is aware of the Quietists and rejects their perspective. Abandonment to Divine Providence has now been read widely for many years and is considered a classic in the spiritual life by Catholics and many others. Caussade spent years as preacher in southern and central France, as a college rector (at Perpignan and at Albi), and as the director of theological students at the Jesuit house in Toulouse, which is where he died.
Jean Pierre de Caussade (7 March 1675 – 8 December 1751) was a French Jesuit priest and writer. He is especially known for the work ascribed to him known as Abandonment to Divine Providence, and also his work with the Nuns of the Visitation in Nancy, France.
Life
Jean Pierre de Caussade was born in Cahors, now in Lot, France. He was spiritual director to the Nuns of the Visitation in Nancy, France, from 1733 to 1740. During this time and after he left Nancy, he wrote letters of instruction to the nuns. Some material ascribed to him was first published in 1861 by Henri Ramière [fr] under the title L’Abandon à la providence divine.
The standard English translation is that of Alga Thorold (1866-1936) published in 1933. A version edited by Fr. John Joyce, S.J., with an introduction by Dom David Knowles (Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge), appeared in 1959 with the title Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence. Knowles places the writings in a line of development of Christian mysticism, as a work of great importance: "we may approach Père de Caussade ... looking back to St. John of the Cross and St. Francis de Sales and forward to St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus." There were no less than twenty-five editions of the work published between 1861 (the Ramière edition) and 1959.
However, according to research on The Treatise on Abandonment to Divine Providence, discussed in a paper by Dominique Salin S.J., emeritus professor at the Faculty of Theology at the Centre Sèvres, published in The Way, 46/2 (April 2007), pp. 21–36, "it now seems almost impossible that the author was in fact the Jesuit Jean-Pierre de Caussade" as "[n]othing in de Caussade's biography would suggest that this man was the author of a famous treatise" and the style of letters of spiritual direction that can genuinely be attributed to de Caussade "is far removed from the lyricism" marking it.
According to Dominique Tronc, a French author and editor of numerous works on Madame Guyon and her spiritual environment, Abandonment to Divine Providence was ″in fact adapted from Madame Guyon″[4] and is based on ″a manuscript by Madame Guyon which was later used by the Jesuit Jean-Pierre de Caussade for a final editing under the title L'abandon à la Providence divine″.
Whoever the author was, he or she (maybe even a certain "lady from Lorraine") believed that the present moment is a sacrament from God and that self-abandonment to it and its needs is a holy state – a belief which, in the theological climate of France at the time, may have been considered close to Quietist heresy. De Caussade himself was forced to withdraw for two years, 1731-1733, as spiritual director of a convent of nuns due to a charge of Quietism, but he was eventually acquitted of the charge.[7] It may have been because of the spectre of being accused of Quietism (with the Church's condemnation of the Quietist movement and condemnation by Pope Innocent XI of the Quietest proponent Miguel de Molinos, and Molinos' death in the prison of Castel Sant'Angelo), the works attributed to de Caussade were kept unpublished until 1861, and even then they were edited by Ramière to protect them from charges of Quietism. A more authoritative version of these notes was published only in 1966. In his writings, the author is aware of the Quietists and rejects their perspective. Abandonment to Divine Providence has now been read widely for many years and is considered a classic in the spiritual life by Catholics and many others. Caussade spent years as preacher in southern and central France, as a college rector (at Perpignan and at Albi), and as the director of theological students at the Jesuit house in Toulouse, which is where he died.
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