The evangelical conversion narrative : spiritual autobiography in early modern England
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 384 pages ; 24 cm
9780199236718, 0199236712
165406555
Abbreviations
Introduction
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 laypeople
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
Bibliography
Index
Originally published: 2005
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