The Evangelical Conversion Narrative : Spirtual Autobiography in Early Modern England

Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 1. Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion Narrative 33 2. The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in the Eighteenth Century 61 3. The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John Wesley 88 4. White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Laypeople 130 5. 'Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture 162 6. 'The Word Came in With Power': Conversions at Cambuslang 193 7. 'A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers 226 8. The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and Personality 261 9. The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the Gathered Church 287 10. After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its Alternatives 321 Bibliography 350 Index 373