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Quietism

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | Copyright

Quietism. Used broadly of any spirituality that minimizes human activity and initiative, leaving all to the will of God. More strictly, it is applied in Christianity to the teaching of certain 17th-cent. writers, especially Miguel de Molinos (condemned in 1687), but also Mme. Guyon and Archbishop Fénelon. In its essence, it takes teaching about the importance of simple surrender to God's will (characteristic of contemplation) out of its context as the end-result of a life of moral discipline and participation in the sacraments. Christian perfection is attained by contemplatio passiva infusa, in which the powers of the self are suspended, to be replaced by God himself.

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