Contents Prologue Apparatus 1 Pure Love 1 Sacrifice 2 The Theological Idiom 3 Freedom and Volition 4 A Tawdry Affair 5 Contemporary Connections2 The Impossible Supposition 1 Is Pure Love Possible? 2 The Abandonment of Hope 3 Novelty: Historical and Theological Contexts for the Impossible Supposition 4 Secular Versions of the Impossible Supposition 5 The Possibility of Virtue3 Quietism 1 François de Sales (1567-1622) 2 Bossuet on François 3 Bossuet and Mme Guyon 4 Attrition and Contrition: Sirmond vs. Camus4 Spontaneity and Indifference 1 Two Senses of Freedom 2 Spontaneity 3 Indifference5 The Augustinus 1 The First Attack on Molinist Indifference 2 The Importance of the Augustinus 3 The Text of the Augustinus 4 Objections and Replies 5 Hope6 Cartesian Wills 1 Descartes's View: Circumstantial Evidence 2 Descartes's View: Textual Evidence7 The Object of Love 1 Amour propre and amour de soi 2 Malebranche on the Will 3 Malebranche and Lamy 4 The Quietist Critique of Malebranche8 Bossuet's Jansenism 1 Du Vaucel's Reports from Rome 2 The Text: Bossuet's Treatise on Free Will 3 Nicole's Refutation of the Quietists 4 The Episode of an ecclesiastical problem 5 Quesnel's Contribution9 The Dénouement 1 Descartes 2 Jansenius 3 Fénelon10 The Last Temptation Chronology Appendices: The Condemned Propositions Bibliography of Works Cited Index.