The Bible In Early Transatlantic Pietism And Evangelicalism / ed. by Douglas A. Sweeney, Michael A. G. Haykin, Ryan P. Hoselton, Jan Stievermann.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
  • ©2022
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1 online resource (306 pages).

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Series
Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
Summary note
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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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023).
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In English.
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
ISBN
  • 0271093218
  • 9780271093215
OCLC
1380732827
Doi
  • 10.1515/9780271093215
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