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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 genr
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Hardcover
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384 pages
Published
April 1st 2005
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published January 1st 2005)
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One of the marks of Evangelicalism in conversionism. It was Jonathan Edwards to have steam to this impulse as he taught through his anthropology that people are able to enter into the kingdom of God apart from the more developmental use of the means of grace. He emphasized a radicalized conversion that brought people into a state of grace in a moment of time. Of course, this scandalized church people, many of whom could not give witness to an experience of conversion. They had grown up in the ch
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