The Evangelical Conversion Narrative
Title | The Evangelical Conversion Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | D. Bruce Hindmarsh |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2005-03-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199245754 |
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' in England during this period and establishes some of the cultural conditions that allowed the genre to proliferate.
Language and Self-Transformation
Title | Language and Self-Transformation PDF eBook |
Author | Peter G. Stromberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2008-06-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521031363 |
Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language.
From Sin to Salvation
Title | From Sin to Salvation PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Lieson Brereton |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1991-07-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780253116154 |
"... fascinating... " -- Theological Book Review By examining women's conversion experiences, the author provides a corrective to the much popularized TV evangelism. She examines the stories U.S. women have told of their profound realization of their sinfulness and the necessity of turning to God's grace and love for forgiveness.
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative
Title | The Evangelical Conversion Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | D. Bruce Hindmarsh |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2005-03-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191529761 |
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.
German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion
Title | German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Strom |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2017-12-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0271080469 |
August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist conversion in the historical imagination around Pietism and religious awakening. Jonathan Strom’s new interpretation challenges the paradigmatic nature of Francke’s narrative and seeks to uncover the more varied, complex, and problematic character that conversion experiences posed for Pietists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Grounded in archival research, German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion traces the way that accounts of conversion developed and were disseminated among Pietists. Strom examines members’ relationship to the pious stories of the “last hours,” the growth of conversion narratives in popular Pietist periodicals, controversies over the Busskampf model of conversion, the Dargun revival movement, and the popular, if gruesome, genre of execution conversion narratives. Interrogating a wide variety of sources and examining nuance in the language used to define conversion throughout history, Strom explains how these experiences were received and why many Pietists had an uneasy relationship to conversions and the practice of narrating them. A learned, insightful work by one of the world’s leading scholars of Pietism, this volume sheds new light on Pietist conversion and the development of piety and modern evangelical narratives of religious experience.
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative
Title | The Evangelical Conversion Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | D. Bruce Hindmarsh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Autobiography |
ISBN |
Wesley and Aldersgate
Title | Wesley and Aldersgate PDF eBook |
Author | Mark K. Olson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2018-09-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1351391232 |
Despite being widely recognized as John Wesley’s key moment of Christian conversion, Aldersgate has continued to mystify regarding its exact meaning and significance to Wesley personally. This book brings clarity to the impact this event had on Wesley over the course of his lifetime by closely examining all of Wesley’s writings pertaining to Aldersgate and framing them within the wider context of contemporary conversion narratives. The central aim of this study is to establish Wesley’s interpretation of his Aldersgate experience as it developed from its initial impressions on the night of 24 May 1738 to its mature articulation in the 1770s. By paying close attention to the language of his diaries, letters, journals, sermons, tracts and other writings, fresh insights into Wesley‘s own perspective are revealed. When these insights are brought into wider context of other conversion narratives in the Christian milieu in which Wesley worked and wrote, this book demonstrates that this single event contributed in significant ways to the ethos of the Methodist movement, and many other denominations, even up to the present day. This is a unique study of the conversion of one of history’s most influential Christian figures, and the impact that such narratives still have on us today. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of Methodism, theology, religious history and religious studies more generally.