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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Kathleen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant converts--English-speaking countries--Biography--History and criticism.

Protestant converts.

Protestantism--English-speaking countries--History--17th century--Sources.

Protestantism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and conventions; List of illustrations; Introduction: No self is an island: The validations of autobiographical truths; 1. Any politic body: The polemics of conversion in the 1620s; 2. Icons basilicae: Civil war and religious identity; 3. 1653: Experiencing election in a true gospel-church state; 4. Writing religious identities in Bedford: Exemplary lives in historical perspective; 5. Beyond the lives of particular men; Conclusion: Truth and consequences; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-163641-X

1-280-77027-9

9786613681041

OCLC:

922971216