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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women
  • Language: en

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women

Using extensive original archival research, this book argues that women practiced, learned about, and taught others the Christian faith through their life writings (including letters and diaries) forming and shaping religious communities in ways that supplemented the more formal spiritual and didactic writings of male ministers and theologians.

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older women, spiritual friendship, and care for nonbiological children-the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in writing religious communities. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religiou...

Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I Vol 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I Vol 1

These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.

The Sung Theology of the English Particular Baptist Revival
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Sung Theology of the English Particular Baptist Revival

Anne Steele (1717-1778) originally wrote her hymns to be sung in the Baptist congregation pastored by her father. The foremost female contemporary of hymn-writing giants Charles Wesley, John Newton, and William Cowper, her hymns are infused with spiritual sensitivity, theological depth, and raw emotion. She eventually published her hymns under the pseudonym, Theodosia, which means "God's Gift." She believed God had given her a gift to share. Steele's work was warmly received in her own day. Pastor and publishing pioneer of the modern English hymnal, John Rippon, included more than fifty of her hymns in the various topical sections of his wildly successful Selection of Hymns. Rippon's hymnal ...

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners demonstrates the fundamental ways in which religious difference shaped English society in the first half of the eighteenth century. By examining the social subtleties of interactions between people of differing beliefs, and how they were mediated through languages and behaviours common to the long eighteenth century, Carys Brown examines the graduated layers of religious exclusivity that influenced everyday existence. By doing so, the book points towards a new approach to the social and cultural history of the eighteenth century, one that acknowledges the integral role of the dynamics of religious difference in key aspects of eighteenth-century life. This book therefore proposes not just to add to current understanding of religious coexistence in this period, but to shift our ways of thinking about the construction of social discourses, parish politics, and cultural spaces in eighteenth-century England.

Emergence of Evangelical Spirituality, The
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Emergence of Evangelical Spirituality, The

Offers a unique collection of primary sources for eighteenth-century evangelical spirituality in America and Britain, along with introduction and commentary, prepared by a prominent scholar of evangelical theology.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 681

The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity, is one of the most popular and diverse religious movements in the world today. Evangelicals maintain the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus' atonement. Evangelicals can be found on every continent and among nearly all Christian denominations. The origin of this group of people has been traced to the turn of the eighteenth century, with roots in the Puritan and Pietist movements in England and Germany. The earliest evangelicals could be found among Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Moravians, and Presbyterians thr...

Protestant Spiritual Traditions, Volume Two
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Protestant Spiritual Traditions, Volume Two

There is no single Protestant spirituality but rather Protestant spiritual traditions usually embedded in denominational families that share some basic Protestant principles. These two volumes of Protestant Spiritual Traditions offer essays on twelve traditions written by scholars within those traditions plus a concluding essay that gathers a number of Protestant contributions to Christian spirituality and Western culture under the category of "the body." These thirteen essays discuss the contributions of significant spiritual figures from Martin Luther to Martin Luther King Jr. and offer insights on a range of topics from the theology of the cross to physical fitness.

Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism

This book examines the spiritual experiences of the first British Methodist lay people and the language used to describe those experiences. It reflects on physical manifestations such as shouting, weeping, groaning, visions, and out-of-body experiences and their role in the process of spiritual development. These experiences offer an intimate perspective on the surprisingly holistic origins of the evangelical revival. The study features autobiographical narratives and other first-hand manuscripts in which “ordinary” lay people recount their first impressions of Methodism, their conflicted feelings throughout the conversion process, their approach toward death and dying, and their mixed attitudes toward the task of writing itself. The book will be relevant to scholars of Methodism, evangelicalism and religious history as well as those interested in emotions and religious experience.

Early Evangelicalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Early Evangelicalism

Early Evangelicalism: A Reader is an anthology that offers over sixty biographical introductions and excerpts from a host of well-known and lesser-known eighteenth-century Protestant writers, representing a variety of denominations, geographical locations, and underrepresented groups.