Fénelon : selected writings / edited, translated, and introduced by Chad Helms

Author:: Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- 1651-1715
Uniform Title:: Works. Selections. English. 2006
Published:: Mahwah, NJ : Paulist Press, [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Physical Description:: x, 372 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Helms, Chad

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Series:

The classics of Western spirituality

Contents:

Sermon for the Feast of Epiphany on the vocation of the gentiles -- Fables -- Number I: an old queen and young peasant -- Number IX: patience and education -- Number XXIV: nightingale and warbler -- Number XXI: young Bacchus and the faun -- Number XXXII: indiscreet prayer of Neleus -- The dialogues of the dead -- Dialogue XXVIII: Dionysius and Diogenes -- Dialogue L: Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius -- Dialogue LVIII: Louis XI and Cardinal Balue -- The adventures of Telemachus -- Letters of spiritual direction -- Letter XL: on character -- Letter I: on the use of time -- Letter II: on diversions -- Letter III: chains of gold -- Letter XXVII: on pure love -- Letter VIII: fidelity in small things -- Letter LKXVI: to the Chevalier Colbert on return to faith -- Letter LXVIII: to Chevalier Colbert on spiritual reading -- Letter to the Duc de Bourgogne on the occasion of his first communion -- Letter to Louis XIV -- The maxims of the saints.

Subject(s):

Christian life—Early works to 1800

ISBN:

0809105551 (cloth : alk. paper)
0809141515 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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