Quietism is associated with Miguel de Molinos, whose Spiritual Guide (1675) taught a prayer of interior quiet in which the soul does nothing and resists nothing. It was condemned in 1687. Madame Guyon and Fénelon were accused of similar views, leading to a famous controversy with Bossuet.
Quietism
A seventeenth-century movement teaching a passive prayer of pure abandonment, condemned by the Catholic Church.