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The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism
Title
The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism / ed. by Douglas A. Sweeney, Michael A.G. Haykin, Ryan P. Hoselton, Jan Stievermann.
ISBN
9780271093215
Publication
University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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In English.
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Summary
This collection of essays showcases the variety and complexity of early awakened Protestant biblical interpretation and practice while highlighting the many parallels, networks, and exchanges that connected the Pietist and evangelical traditions on both sides of the Atlantic.A yearning to obtain from the Word spiritual knowledge of God that was at once experiential and practical lay at the heart of the Pietist and evangelical quest for true religion, and it significantly shaped the courses and legacies of these movements. The myriad ways in which Pietists and evangelicals read, preached, translated, and practiced the Bible were inextricable from how they fashioned new forms of devotion, founded institutions, engaged the early Enlightenment, and made sense of their world. This volume provides breadth and texture to the role of Scripture in these related religious traditions. The contributors probe an assortment of primary source material from various confessional, linguistic, national, and regional traditions and feature well-known figures--including August Hermann Francke, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards--alongside lesser-known lay believers, women, people of color, and so-called radicals and separatists. Pioneering and collaborative, this volume contributes fresh insight into the history of the Bible and the entangled religious cultures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Ruth Albrecht, Robert E. Brown, Crawford Gribben, Bruce Hindmarsh, Kenneth P. Minkema, Adriaan C. Neele, Benjamin M. Pietrenka, Isabel Rivers, Douglas H. Shantz, Peter Vogt, and Marilyn J. Westerkamp.
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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Series
Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 Commentators and Commentaries
1 Bible Editions, Translations, and Commentaries in German Pietism
2 Biblical Aids, Editions, Translations, and Commentaries by Dissenters, Methodists, and Church of England Evangelicals in Eighteenth-Century England
Part 2 Historical Trajectories and Transitions
3 Early Modern Dutch Reformed Exegesis and Its Pietist-Evangelical Reception
4 Reading the Bible: John Owen and Early Evangelical "Biblicism"
5 Bible Politics and Early Evangelicalism: Scriptural Submission and Resistance in Nonconformist Commentary
6 The Bible in Early Pietist and Evangelical Missions
Part 3 Interpretive Approaches, Issues, and Debates
7 The Evangelical Supernatural in Early Modern British Protestantism: Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Miracles of Jesus
8 Lay Appropriations and Female Interpretations of the Bible in German Pietism
9 "My Beloved Is White and Ruddy": Particular Baptist Readings of the Song of Songs in the Long Eighteenth Century
10 Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Relationship Between Historical and Spiritual Exegesis in Early Evangelicalism
11 Reading Revelation and Revelatory Readings in Early Awakened Protestantism: A Transatlantic Comparison
Part 4 The Bible and Lived Religion
12 "At Any Price Give Me the Book of God!": Devotional Intent and Bible Reading for the Early Evangelicals
13 Spirit of the Word: Scripture in the Lives of Evangelical and Moravian Women in the New World, 1730-1830
14 Moravians and the Bible in the Atlantic World: The Case of the Daily Watchwords in Bethlehem, PA, 1742-1745
Conclusion
List of Contributors
Index of Scripture
General Index
Subjects
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