Experimental theology in America : Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers
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Experimental theology in America : Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers
Baylor University Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-271) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de F? (R)nelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional literature--one that continues to influence American evangelicals and charismatic Christians today. Down a winding (and fascinating) historical path, Ward traces how the lives and writings of these two somewhat obscure Catholic believers in Quietism came to such prominence in American spirituality--offering, in part, a fascinating glance at the role of women in the history of devotional writing.
Table of Contents
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? (R)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? (R)nelon and Madame Guyon
Chapter Six
Persons of Eminent Piety and Writers of Spiritual Wisdom: F? (R)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? (R)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
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