The popular spiritual treatise commonly known as Abandonment to Divine Providence is widely renowned as one of the great classics of Western spirituality.1 Written late in the first half of the eighteenth century, it first circulated only in manuscript form and did not find its way into print until well over a century later. Although recent scholarship has raised serious concerns about its authorship, it has generally been attributed to the French Jesuit spiritual writer Jean-Pierre
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