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Experimental theology in America : Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers

Title
Experimental theology in America : Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers / Patricia A. Ward.
Author
Ward, Patricia A., 1940-
Publication
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009.

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xvi, 279 p.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 dénouement 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.
Call Number
JFE 09-4283
ISBN
  • 9781602581975 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1602581975 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009010373
OCLC
317118143
Author
Ward, Patricia A., 1940-
Title
Experimental theology in America : Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers / Patricia A. Ward.
Imprint
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 09-4283
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