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Protestant autobiography in the seventeenth-century Anglophone world /

This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynch, Kathleen, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Protestant converts > English-speaking countries > Biography > History and criticism.
Protestantism > English-speaking countries > History > 17th century > Sources.
Convertis protestants > Anglophonie > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Protestantisme > Anglophonie > Histoire > 17e siècle > Sources.
RELIGION > Christianity > Protestant.
Protestantism
English-speaking countries
1600-1699
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191636417
019163641X
1280770279
9781280770272
9780191738876
0191738875