French-Flemish mystic and self-styled prophet from Lille who left conventional life to pursue a radical, non-sectarian 'true Christianity,' gathered an international network of followers through her visions and writings, and became widely read across the Dutch Republic, England, and Scotland in the later seventeenth century.
4 titles in the Cabinet
Life and Sentiments
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An apology for M. Antonia Bourignon in four parts ... : to which are added two letters from different hands, containing remarks on the preface to The snake in the grass and Bourignianism detected : as also some of her own letters, whereby her true Christian spirit and sentiments are farther justified and vindicated, particularly as to the doctrine of the merits and satisfaction of Jesus Christ
The light risen in darkness. In four parts. Being a collection of letter written to several persons, upon great and important subjects. Very profitable for the common instruction and conduct of all who seek God in sincerity ... with a large explication of the 24. and 25. chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel
The Dial's edition: London, 1703
An exposition of Bourignon's spiritual vision—finding divine illumination within the soul's darkness and the world's confusion.
An admirable treatise of solid vertue unknown to the men of this generation who take the appearance of vertue, for the true vertue taught by Jesus Christ ... and in the other saving instructions which he hath given for true Christians in twenty four letters to a young man, who sought after the perfection of his soul ... part I
The Dial's edition: Amsterdam, 1699
Presents virtue as an inward, practical transformation rather than external morality, structured as 24 letters to a young man seeking perfection of soul. It offers stepwise counsel on humility, self-denial, detachment, and faithful obedience to divine leading—essentially a manual of disciplined interior life. Listed in The Dial as A. Bourignon, Solid Virtue, London, 1699.
