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The evangelical conversion narrative : spiritual autobiography in early modern England /

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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 autob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hindmarsh, D. Bruce
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Evangelical Revival > Biography > History and criticism.
Christian converts > England > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 18th century.
Autobiographie.
Bekehrung (Motiv)
Methodismus.
Englisch.
Grossbritannien.
Geschichte 1640-1800
Geschichte 1720-1800
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.