Elizabeth Prentiss’ Faith in Suffering and Perplexity about the Wesleyan and the Higher Life Doctrines: On Stepping Heavenward
Elizabeth Prentiss, an American Christian writer of the 19th century, kept her faith through trusting that trials and the suffering that often accompanies them carry a positive meaning since it is God who sends such trials. Prentiss’ spiritual pilgrimage is reflected in her Stepping Heavenward (1869...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2004
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Literature and theology
Year: 2004, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 415-426 |
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| Summary: | Elizabeth Prentiss, an American Christian writer of the 19th century, kept her faith through trusting that trials and the suffering that often accompanies them carry a positive meaning since it is God who sends such trials. Prentiss’ spiritual pilgrimage is reflected in her Stepping Heavenward (1869). While most episodes in the story are described vividly, a few episodes concerning Christian perfection are written ambiguously. By comparing the story with her later work Urbané and His Friends, her letters, John Wesley's A Plain Account of Christian Perfection and W.E. Boardman's The Higher Christian Life, I will assert that this ambiguity is attributed to Prentiss’ perplexity about the Wesleyan and the Higher Life doctrines. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/18.4.415 |