Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal

by John J. Conley

In seventeenth-century France, southwest of Paris, the Port-Royal convent became the center of the Jansenist movement and of its adherents' resistance to church and throne. Three abbesses from the Arnauld family spearheaded this resistance: M re Ang lique Arnauld (1591-1661), M re Agn s Arnauld (1593-1671), and M re Ang lique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly (1624-1684). Although many books have been written about the tragic lives of the Port-Royal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268022968
• ISBN13: 9780268022969
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"