Abstract
From Forbidden Prayer to Impossible Prayer The point has long been not so much to teach how to pray as to force Catholic people to pray according to the norm, using a small number of texts which could not be modified because of their sacred nature. Any modification was seen as a sacrilege. Some examples stress the large number of this kind of proceedings and their seeming intensification during the second half of the 17th century. In the following century, a large number of men and women, torn between the obligation to address God in a strictly codified language and the discovery by Newton that He was both almighty and terribly distant, must have wondered how useful prayers were. Leibnitz had already introduced this doubt and Rousseau turned it into rejection.
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