The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American ExpressionCUP Archive, 1985 M11 29 - 210 páginas In the mid-seventeenth century, persons on both sides of the Atlantic wishing to join a Puritan church had to appear before all of its members and tell the story of their religious conversion - in effect, to give convincing verbal evidence that their souls were saved. New England's Puritans widely adopted this practice, and in this book Patricia Caldwell attempts to unravel the mystery of this procedure by viewing it as a literary phenomenon that met the special imaginative and expressive needs of troubled people in a time of great turmoil. In the first comparative reading of conversion stories as literary expression, Caldwell shows that these symbolic and deeply religious narratives represent 'the first faint murmurings of a truly American voice'. |
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The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression Patricia Caldwell Sin vista previa disponible - 1985 |
The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression Patricia Caldwell Sin vista previa disponible - 1983 |
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admission American Anne Bradstreet answer Antinomian assurance Baillie Bernard Bible Boston Briefe Narration Cambridge child Christ Christian church members cited claim Clap Clap's comfort confession congregation Congregationalism conversion narrative conversion stories Cotton Mather covenant Creeds and Platforms Dissvasive doctrine dream early Elizabeth White emotional England expression fact fear feelings gathered churches Geneva Bible God's Goodwife grace hath hearing heart hither Holy Ibid imaginative Jesus John Cotton kind language literary London Lord Massachusetts matter mercy ministers Morgan Old England Plain Dealing prayed preaching Presbyterians problem profession of faith Puritan question Rathband relation of religious religious experience repentance Richard Richard Mather Rogers Sacvan Bercovitch Scripture sense separatist sermon Shea Shepard group sins sion Sizar soul Sparhawk speak speaker Spiritual Autobiography Spirituall Experiences symbolic testimony things Thomas Goodwin Thomas Hooker Thomas Shepard thought tion Tipson trouble University Press unto verbal visible Church Visible Saints Walker words
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Language and Self-Transformation: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative Peter G. Stromberg Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |