Into the Dark Night and Back: The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin
| Authors | Surin, Jean-Joseph, S.J., 1600-65 Sluhovsky, Moshe Ranum, Patricia M. |
| Series | Jesuit Studies [19.0] |
| Tags | Mysticism-History-17th century |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Published | 19 dic 2018 |
| Date | 20 lug 2019 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | oclc: 1057732319, isbn: 9789004387652, doi: 10.1163/9789004387652, Amazon.com, uri: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uaz/detail.action?docID=5634155, lcn: BV5075 .I586 2019, lcc: 2018049893, google: RMuDDwAAQBAJ |
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Into the Dark Night and Back is the first comprehensive English language selection of the mystical writings, poems, and letters of the French mystic and exorcist Jean-Joseph Surin (/syʁˈɛ̃/), S.J. (1600-65).
pp. 29-125 (PDF pp. 37-133) are his Triomphe de l’amour divin sur les puissances de l’enfer , which gives his own account (in the third person) of his exorcisms of the Loudon Ursuline convent. Acedia was the last and worst demon he conquered; cf. pp. 99-101 (PDF pp. 107-9).
His Jesuit superior told him to exorcise an Ursuline convent in the 1630s in ½ Protestant (Huguenot), ½ Catholic Loudun (/ludˈœ̃/); he obediently, humbly, and courageously did so, in exchange for himself being possessed/obsessed for two decades. His then-novel but very effective exorcism technique was to focus on his interior life and to inspire the energumen with a love of Christian perfection. It's interesting this happened in the same decade as Galileo's second condemnation (in 1633), when skepticism, "methodological doubt," and a distrust of the senses were on the rise.