Evangelical Conversion Narrative Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England

Name: Evangelical Conversion Narrative Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England
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ISBN: 9780199245758

ISBN-10: 0199245754

ISBN-13: 9780199245758

Edition: 2005

Authors: D. Bruce Hindmarsh

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced evangelical conversion and turned to a certain form of spiritual autobiography to make sense of their lives. This book traces the rise and progress of conversion narrative as a unique form of spiritual autobiography in early modern England. After outlining the emergence of the genre in the seventeenth century and the revival of the form in the journals of the leaders of the Evangelical Revival, the central chapters of the book examine extensive archival sources to show the subtly different forms of narrative identity that appeared among Wesleyan Methodists, Moravians, Anglicans, Baptists, and…

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List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/26/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.628



Abbreviations


Introduction



Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion Narrative



The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in the Eighteenth Century



The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John Wesley



White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Laypeople



'Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture



'The Word Came in With Power': Conversions at Cambuslang



'A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers



The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and Personality



The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the Gathered Church



After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its Alternatives


Bibliography


Index