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Dr Hindmarsh draws upon extensive archival and antiquarian sources
to provide a serious, scholarly consideration of the life and
religious thought of John Newton (1725-1807). In addition, he uses
the theme of Newton as a 'sort of middle man' to explore the
religious understanding of a whole generation who knew themselves
as 'evangelical' although this was different from those who later
adopted the term as a badge of partisan loyalty. The author shows
how Newton is related to other Church of England evangelicals,
Methodists, and various Dissenting bodies, and how his life sheds
light on little explored aspects of the Evangelical Revival which
contribute to an understanding and reassessment of the
eighteenth-century church. In addition to discussion of themes in
historical theology, pastoralia, and spirituality, an analysis of
conversion narrative, the familiar letter, and hymnody contribute
to an understanding of the relationship between religion and
culture more generally.
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 genre in the
seventeenth century and the revival of the form in the journals of
the leaders of the Evangelical Revival, the central chapters of the
book examine extensive archival sources to show the subtly
different forms of narrative identity that appeared among Wesleyan
Methodists, Moravians, Anglicans, Baptists, and others. Attentive
to the unique voices of pastors and laypeople, women and men,
Western and non-Western peoples, the book establishes the cultural
conditions under which the genre proliferated.
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 genre in the
seventeenth century and the revival of the form in the journals of
the leaders of the Evangelical Revival, the central chapters of the
book examine extensive archival sources to show the subtly
different forms of narrative identity that appeared among Wesleyan
Methodists, Moravians, Anglicans, Baptists, and others. Attentive
to the unique voices of pastors and laypeople, women and men,
Western and non-Western peoples, the book establishes the cultural
conditions under which the genre proliferated.
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