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Sacrifice and Delight in the Mystical Theologies of Anna Maria Van Schurman and Madame Jeanne GuyonAuthor(s): Bo Karen Lee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268033910, 978-0268033910\nSynopsis\nIn this compelling study of two seventeenth-century female mystics, Bo Karen Lee examines the writings of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon, who, despite different religious formations, came to similar conclusions about the experience of God in contemplative prayer. Van Schurman was born into a Dutch Calvinist family and became a superb scriptural commentator before undergoing a dramatic religious conversion and joining the Labadist community, a Pietistic movement. Guyon was a French layperson whose thought would be identified with Quietisma spiritual path that was looked upon with suspicion both by the French Catholic Church and by Rome.\n\n Lee analyzes and compares the themes of s.