The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England. By D. Bruce Hindmarsh
D. Bruce Hindmarsh, of Regent College, Vancouver, has written an impressive study of British and American Protestant ‘conversion-narratives’ or spiritual autobiographies written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He makes a clear distinction between these stories of personal religious tran...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 764-766 |
| Review of: | The evangelical conversion narrative (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005) (Kent, John)
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| Summary: | D. Bruce Hindmarsh, of Regent College, Vancouver, has written an impressive study of British and American Protestant ‘conversion-narratives’ or spiritual autobiographies written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He makes a clear distinction between these stories of personal religious transformation and the older Roman Catholic biographical accounts of an ascetic growth in grace towards a final perfection. He concentrates on the Moravians, Whitefield, and the Wesleys, and contrasts the Calvinist idea of assurance as a late divine gift to the persevering believer with the Wesleyan belief that assurance came with the experience of conversion. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm058 |