L'absolu et le monde

Although still little known, the Little Council was the most important intellectual pole of French Catholicism during the reign of Louis XIV. The greatest names in scholarly, ecclesiastical, and literary life were represented: besides Bossuet and Fénelon, La Bruyère, Fléchier, Fleury, Huet, Cordemoy, and so many others. If the group were profoundly convinced that only the Absolute "is" truly, he did not believe that the salvation of peoples as people is played out in history and that society is its place. Unlike Port-Royal, he rejected any temptation to "retire". From then on, all the questions asked of the Christians of his time, including political or economic, interested him, and one is surprised at the incredible variety of the subjects that he addresses. The question of the world passes through a questioning of literature. The originality of the project of the little Council is measured by the originality of its vision, and this originality founds a new writing of the world. Between the Christian or humanist heritage and the prefiguration of the Enlightenment, between the anchoring in the past and the ways open to the future, the Little Council played a decisive role at the turning point of the Europe of the "Devotees" and the Europe of the "Philosophers ".--Translation of page 4 of cover by Honoré Champion : https://www.honorechampion.com/fr/champion/10377-book-08533153-9782745331533.html