Les Dossiers du GRIHL (May 2020)
Jean-Joseph Surin et le Royaume intérieur. La construction d’un groupement volontaire spirituel
Abstract
In the seventeenth century, mysticism reached its apogee while it was condemned by the institution at the same time. For theological and social reasons, it had to cope with Catholicism before it was suppressed at the end of the century. This situation, which generated forms of radical protest or compromise, weighed heavy on the networking of those who were called "mystics". Following the paradigmatic case of the Jesuit Jean-Joseph Surin, and using the vocabulary of religious sociology, we show how was constructed a "voluntary spiritual group" whose protest remained within the limits of obedience.
