{"product_id":"9780986197123","title":"Divine Love: The Emblems of Madame Jeanne Guyon and D'Othon Vaenius","description":"These emblems of Divine Love connect spiritual drawings with poems to reveal the depths of God's love. In her poems, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717) writes an open conversation with God, while D'Othon Vaenius' (1556-1629) beautiful engravings portray divine love engaging with the human soul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe artist D'Othon Vaenius published these famous and popular engravings in 1615. Vaenius was a leading art teacher in Antwerp and had Peter Paul Rubens among his students. Vaenius drew these images showing the relationship between Divine Love and the human soul, called Anima.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter seeing D'Othon Vaenius's images, Jeanne Guyon wrote poems that she connected with each one of these drawings. In these poems, Guyon's words soar as she addresses God directly, speaking from her heart to the divine heart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause of her Christian faith, Guyon had been incarcerated for ten years, including 5 years in the Bastille. She carried this book on Divine Love into the Bastille. In 1703 the state authorities completely exonerated Guyon, who then spent the rest of her life writing and giving spiritual direction to people from around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanne Guyon writes about her relationship with God in a poem from this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Flow, divine water, through the mouth of my heart; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI find in you all that I desire,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou quench my thirst. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love nothing in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe more I drink you, the more I burn for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFire all divine, source of all fruitfulness,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI taste in you unspeakable goodness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe emblems of D'Othon Vaenius and Jeanne Guyon offer a detailed visualization to us of what Divine Love would feel and look like. Through their work we remember Divine Love, a preoccupation of the seventeenth century, that reaches out to remind us-to awaken us to the magnificent reality of love offering a balm to our wounds, courage to meet our challenges, and a fragrance to our relationships. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this first English translation of this book, these emblems of divine love become available to post-modern readers. These emblems created by D'Othon Vaenius and Guyon symbolically represent spiritual meaning and, as such, offer a gift of revealed strength and purpose to the aware reader. In our age when love seems almost forgotten, this emblem book uniting Guyon's poetry and D'Othon Vaenius's illustrations give us a long and ravishing look into what might be. What if Divine Love becomes part of the human endeavor and joins to human souls? D'Othon Vaenius and Jeanne Guyon took this hope into their own souls and reveal to us their vision of the love of God bonding and becoming one with the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nancy James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035880505584,"sku":"9780986197123","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986197123_p0.jpg?v=1763881390","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986197123","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}