Protestant autobiography in the seventeenth-century Anglophone world
By: Kathleen Lynch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780199643936
Subjects: Protestantism; History and criticism; Protestant converts; Histoire; Protestantisme; Sources; Biography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.