Experimental theology in America : Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers / Patricia A. Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Patricia A., 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quietism--United States--History.

Quietism.

Pietism--United States--History.

Pietism.

History.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Church history.

Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717.

Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte.

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-.

Physical Description:

xvi, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2009]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781602581975

1602581975

OCLC:

317118143