1685
French
A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer
Jeanne Guyon · 1648–1717
An argument that everyone, including the simplest, can pray by simply attending to God's presence and abandoning themselves to his will.
Western · DevotionalFull text
1601–1700
The Seventeenth Century
7 works
published 1692
French
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection · c. 1614–1691
Conversations and letters collected after the death of a lay brother who worked in a monastery kitchen and claimed to possess God as peacefully among his pots and pans as on his knees.
1901–2000
The Twentieth Century
1 work
1939
German
Life Together
Gemeinsames Leben
Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1906–1945
A short account of the shared life of the Finkenwalde seminary — the day together, the day alone, confession, service — with a warning that a community which loves its own ideal of community will destroy the real one.