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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 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.
D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.
Show moreIn 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.
D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.
Show moreIntroduction
1: Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion
Narrative
2: The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in
the Eighteenth Century
3: The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John
Wesley
4: White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Lay People
5: `Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture
6: `The Word Came in with Power': Conversions at Cambuslang
7: `A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist
Preachers
8: The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and
Personality
9: The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the
Gathered Church
10: After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its
Alternatives
D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.
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 His beautifully organised, clearly written, and richly illustrated book explores a huge range of material in manuscript as well as print... Isabel Rivers, University of London, MLR an absolutely excellent book, which will be required reading for the period. W.R. Ward, Theology Hindmarsh's analysis of this corpus of material is illuminating ... Hindmarsh's mastery of the disciplines of theology, history, and literary theory, together with his rigour and sound judgement, will command respect. Dr Colin Podmore, Church Times This is an outstanding book...Hindmarsh is properly critical, is deeply aware of the context, and is also splendidly readable. This is one of the finest books that I have read on the eighteenth-century evangelical revival. Evangelical Quarterly ...an exemplary analysis of a central feature of early evangelical history. Ecclesiastical History, Volume 57/3
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