The Crisis of Mysticism Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Italy, and France - Paperback

by Bernard McGinn (Author)

The Crisis of Mysticism is the first book in English in seventy years to give a full account of the struggle over mystical spirituality that tore the Catholic Church apart at the end of the seventeenth century, resulting in papal condemnation of some mystics and the decline of mysticism in Catholicism for almost two centuries.