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 others. Attentive to the unique voices of pastors and laypeople, women and men, Western and non-Western peoples, the book establishes the cultural conditions under which the genre proliferated.
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"It is the best book ever published by a North American on eighteenth-century evangelical religion." --Mark A. Noll, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"One of the great virtues of this perceptive and wide ranging study is that Hindmarsh's reading of the text is both analytically sophisticated and extraordinarily sympathetic. This study is definitive in many respects, most notably in its breadth of vision, its analytical precision, and its evident compassion. Both secular and religious scholars are lucky to have this magisterial study of conversion narratives as a guide to further reflection and research." -- American Historical Review
"This new study offers fresh approaches and an array of intriguing insights based on a mountain of scholarship... On the whole, it is an outstanding monograph." --Anglican and Episcopal History
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D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.
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IN 1657 the English Puritans Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye complained about the Catholic understanding of conversion, saying, 'But that first great and saving Work of Conversion; which is the foundation of all true piety, the great and numerous volumns [sic] of their most devout writers are usually silent therein. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
religious affections, evangelical conversion narrative, congregation diary, lay narratives, home with power, confessional diary, voyage journal, narrative culture, pious death, early evangelicals, male preachers, conversion narratives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles Wesley, John Ryland, John Wesley, New York, The Early Methodist Journalists, Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers, Margaret Austin, The Early Methodist Laypeople, The Seventeenth Century Reprised, Moravian Narrative Culture, Martha Claggett, Arminian Magazine, After Christendom, The Olney Autobiographers, Early Modern Origins, Jonathan Edwards, The Revival of Conversion Narrative, Sierra Leone, John Newton, George Whitefield, New England, Mary Ramsay, James Robe, Fetter Lane, Church of England Browse Sample Pages:
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IN 1657 the English Puritans Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye complained about the Catholic understanding of conversion, saying, 'But that first great and saving Work of Conversion; which is the foundation of all true piety, the great and numerous volumns [sic] of their most devout writers are usually silent therein. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
religious affections, evangelical conversion narrative, congregation diary, lay narratives, home with power, confessional diary, voyage journal, narrative culture, pious death, early evangelicals, male preachers, conversion narratives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles Wesley, John Ryland, John Wesley, New York, The Early Methodist Journalists, Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers, Margaret Austin, The Early Methodist Laypeople, The Seventeenth Century Reprised, Moravian Narrative Culture, Martha Claggett, Arminian Magazine, After Christendom, The Olney Autobiographers, Early Modern Origins, Jonathan Edwards, The Revival of Conversion Narrative, Sierra Leone, John Newton, George Whitefield, New England, Mary Ramsay, James Robe, Fetter Lane, Church of England Browse Sample Pages:
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