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Ronney Mourad

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BIOGRAPHY

Ronney Mourad serves as Professor of Religious Studies at Albion College. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He has published on Jeanne Guyon, as well as the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology with particular interest in religious experience, epistemology, and faith. His books include Transcendental Arguments and Justified Christian Belief and two books with Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Jeanne Guyon: Selected Writings and The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon.

Primary Contributions (1)

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon was a French Roman Catholic mystic and writer, a central figure in the theological debates of 17th-century France through her advocacy of Quietism, an extreme passivity and indifference of the soul, even to eternal salvation, wherein she believed that one…

Publications (3)

Jeanne Guyon: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality (Hardcover)) (January 2012)

By Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Ronney Mourad

Jeanne Guyon was a seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, and a fascinating figure in the court of Louis XIV. Marginalized and ignored by French historians for two centuries after her death, her spiritual writings have nonetheless remained consistently popular among English-speaking audiences. Guyon had a strong influence among Quakers and Methodists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and her message of self-abnegation and the complete abandonment of individual desires in conformity...

The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon (AAR Religions in Translation) (December 2011)

By Ronney Mourad, Dianne Guenin-Lelle

This book presents the first-ever English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Although she was marginalized and ignored by French historians for two centuries after her death, Guyon became a major figure in the development of transatlantic Protestant spirituality in the eighteenth century, and her writings have remained popular among English-speaking audiences.Guyon's narrative describes her confinement...

Transcendental Arguments and Justified Christian Belief (March 2005)

By Ronney Mourad

Transcendental Arguments and Justified Christian Belief offers an extended discussion of the characteristics of transcendental arguments and the philosophical objections that have been leveled against them. Author Ronney Mourad provides a comprehensive review of the recent philosophical literature concerning the definition and possibility of transcendental arguments and defends original positions on these issues.One function of transcendental arguments is to identify beliefs or propositions...