Experimental theology in America: Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers
American popular piety and continental spirituality : the ecumenical contexts of nineteenth-century holiness camp meetings -- The reputation of Madame Guyon : personalities, politics, and religious controversy under Louis XIV -- The denouement of the quietist drama and early intermediaries to Protes...
| Résumé: | American popular piety and continental spirituality : the ecumenical contexts of nineteenth-century holiness camp meetings -- The reputation of Madame Guyon : personalities, politics, and religious controversy under Louis XIV -- The denouement of the quietist drama and early intermediaries to Protestant circles -- Madame Guyon and the pietist mind-set : the transmission of quietism to German-speaking Pennsylvania -- The praxis of piety : Quaker and Methodist mediation of the works of Fénelon and Madame Guyon -- Persons of eminent piety and writers of spiritual wisdom : Fénelon, Madame Guyon and their American readership, 1800-1840 -- From experimental religion to experimental holiness : contexts of Thomas Upham's reinterpretation of Madame Guyon, 1840-1860 -- The turn to devotional literature : readers of Fénelon, from Boardman, Stowe, and Bushnell to twentieth-century Evangelicals -- The legacy of Madame Guyon from 1850 to 2000 : from romantic sentimentalism to the Charismatic Movement |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Description matérielle: | XVI, 279 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60258-197-5 |
