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Zusatztext Heart Religion deserves to be in the hands of every student... The individual chapters are each insightful and suggestive, together building up a fuller picture in mosaic. But Coffeys outstanding introduction is worth its weight in gold, both as a synthesis of the recent literature and for its prescience in identifying emerging research questions. Informationen zum Autor John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. Klappentext A collection of ten essays on the phenomenon of evangelical piety most closely associated with the Evangelical Revival of the 1730s and 1740s. The essays ask whether the 'religion of the heart' predated the Revival and look at a range of possible influences. Zusammenfassung A collection of ten essays on the phenomenon of evangelical piety most closely associated with the Evangelical Revival of the 1730s and 1740s. The essays ask whether the 'religion of the heart' predated the Revival and look at a range of possible influences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: John Coffey: Between Puritanism and Evangelicalism: Heart-work in Dissenting Communion Hymns, 1693-1709 2: Patricia A. Ward: Continental Spirituality and Eighteenth-Century British Protestant Readers 3: Daniel L. Brunner: The Evangelical Heart of Pietist Anthony William Boehm 4: David Ceri Jones: George Whitefield and Heart Religion 5: Tom Schwanda: Gazing at the Wounds: The Blood of the Lamb in the Hymns of John Cennick 6: Isabel Rivers: Inward Religion and its Dangers in the Evangelical Revival 7: Phyllis Mack: Dreaming and Emotion in Early Evangelical Religion 8: Andrew R. Holmes: Personal Conversion, Revival, and the Holy Spirit: Presbyterian Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Ulster 9: D.W. Bebbington: The Deathbed Piety of Victorian Evangelical Nonconformists Bibliography
