Heart religion : evangelical piety in England & Ireland, 1690-1850 / John Coffey. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coffey, John, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revivals--British Isles--History--18th century.

Revivals.

Revivals--British Isles--History--19th century.

Piety--History--18th century.

Piety.

Piety--History--19th century.

Europe--British Isles.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This title provides 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Sources and trajectories of evangelical piety / John Coffey

Between Puritanism and evangelicalism: 'heart-work' in dissenting communion hymns, 1693-1709 / John Coffey

Continental spirituality and British Protestant readers / Patricia A. Ward

The 'evangelical' heart of Pietist Anthony William Boehm / Daniel L. Brunner

George Whitefield and heart religion / David Ceri Jones

Gazing at the wounds: the blood of the lamb in the hymns of John Cennick / Tom Schwanda

Inward religion and its dangers in the evangelical revival / Isabel Rivers

Dreaming and emotion in early evangelical religion / Phyllis Mack

Personal conversion, revival, and the Holy Spirit: Presbyterian evangelicalism in early nineteenth-century Ulster / Andrew R. Holmes

The deathbed piety of Victorian evangelical nonconformists / David W. Bebbington.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 19, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-179196-2