Experimental theology in America : Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers
By: Patricia A. Ward.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781602581975
Subjects: Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, -- 1648-1717; Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, -- 1651-1715; Quietism -- United States -- History; Pietism -- United States -- History; United States -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American popular piety and continental spirituality : the ecumenical contexts of nineteenth-century holiness camp meetings; title: The reputation of Madame Guyon : personalities, politics, and religious controversy under Louis XIV; title: The denouement of the quietist drama and early intermediaries to Protestant circles; title: Madame Guyon and the pietist mind-set : the transmission of quietism to German-speaking Pennsylvania; title: The praxis of piety : Quaker and Methodist mediation of the works of Fénelon and Madame Guyon; title: Persons of eminent piety and writers of spiritual wisdom : Fénelon, Madame Guyon and their American readership, 1800-1840; title: From experimental religion to experimental holiness : contexts of Thomas Upham's reinterpretation of Madame Guyon, 1840-1860; title: The turn to devotional literature : readers of Fénelon, from Boardman, Stowe, and Bushnell to twentieth-century Evangelicals; title: The legacy of Madame Guyon from 1850 to 2000 : from romantic sentimentalism to the Charismatic Movement.