Protestant autobiography in the seventeenth-century Anglophone world

Protestant autobiography in the seventeenth-century Anglophone world / Kathleen Lynch.

This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, a...

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Main Author: Lynch, Kathleen, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Protestant converts > English-speaking countries > Biography > History and criticism.
Protestantism > English-speaking countries > History > 17th century > Sources.
RELIGION > Christianity > Protestant.
Protestantism
English-speaking countries
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Biographies.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: No self is an island: The validations of autobiographical truths
  • Any politic body: The polemics of conversion in the 1620s
  • Icons basilicae: Civil war and religious identity
  • 1653: Experiencing election in a true gospel-church state
  • Writing religious identities in Bedford: Exemplary lives in historical perspective
  • Beyond the lives of particular men.

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