Experimental Theology in America: Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers

ISBN-13: 9781481311106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Patricia A. Ward

Spis treści

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One
• American Popular Piety and Continental Spirituality: The Ecumenical Contexts of Nineteenth-Century Holiness Camp Meetings
• Chapter Two
• The Reputation of Madame Guyon: Personalities, Politics, and Religious Controversy under Louis XIV
• Chapter Three
• The D?®nouement of the Quietist Drama and Early Intermediaries to Protestant Circles
• Chapter Four
• Madame Guyon and the Pietist Mind-Set: The Transmission of Quietism to German-Speaking Pennsylvania
• Chapter Five
• The Praxis of Piety: Quaker and Methodist Mediation of the Works of F?®nelon and Madame Guyon
• Chapter Six
• Persons of Eminent Piety and Writers of Spiritual Wisdom: F?®nelon, Madame Guyon, and Their American Readership, 1800-1840
• Chapter Seven
• From Experimental Religion to Experimental Holiness: Contexts of Thomas Upham's Reinterpretation of Madame Guyon, 1840-1860
• Chapter Eight
• The Turn to Devotional Literature: Readers of F?®nelon, From Boardman, Stowe, and Bushnell to Twentieth-Century Evangelicals
• Chapter Nine
• The Legacy of Madame Guyon from 1850 to 2000: From Romantic Sentimentalism to the Charismatic Movement
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography