Jeanne Guyon's Apocalyptic Universe: Her Biblical Commentary on Revelation with Reflections on the Interior Life

by Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon, Nancy Carol James (Editor), William Bradley Roberts (Foreword by)

Overview

In seventeenth-century France, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717) writes about the suffering of the apocalypse followed by the consummation of the second coming. Guyon believed that in our earthly pilgrimage, we may find the way to union with our Savior Jesus Christ. To read her commentary on Revelation--translated into English here for the first time--is to be caught up in her conversation with the living Lord. We experience the wonder and passion of this conversation which is her authenticity at its highest level. As Guyon expresses her love to Jesus Christ, the words carry the attentive reader into the heart of God while deepening our own interior being. In her commentary on Revelation, Guyon interprets Jesus Christ's grace needed for living faithfully during the time of suffering in the apocalypse before the advent of the new heaven and new earth in which believers experience eternal union with God. Guyon writes, "It is your universal reign that I desire, O God, and about which I am passionate. . . . So come, Lord Jesus! Let the grace of the Lord Jesus prepare us all for the second coming. Amen."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532662843
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	03/14/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	202
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Nancy Carol James is a priest associate at St. John’s, Lafayette Sq., Washington, DC. She has written ten books about Jeanne Guyon. Along with writing books, James works as adjunct university faculty at Grand Canyon University.
Nancy Carol James has published 13 books by and about Madame Jeanne Guyon. Paul Haffner of the Pontifical Gregorian University writes, "Nancy James has become the key and leading expert on Guyon and her invitation to understand Guyon spirituality better is to be greatly welcomed and appreciated." In 2022 Fr. Thomas Kuffel and Nancy Carol James published The Ascent to God: Divine Theosis Revealed and Realized in the Teaching of John Paul II. The book's introduction was written by Bishop Chad Zeilinski, Bishop of New Ulm. The book received the imprimatur from Bishop Larry Silva of Honolulu.