Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion Narrative
2: The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in the Eighteenth Century
3: The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John Wesley
4: White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Lay People
5: `Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture
6: `The Word Came in with Power': Conversions at Cambuslang
7: `A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers
8: The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and Personality
9: The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the Gathered Church
10: After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its Alternatives

About the Author

D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.

Reviews

It is the best book ever published by a North American on eighteenth-century evangelical religion. Mark A. Noll, Journal of the American Academy of Religion His beautifully organised, clearly written, and richly illustrated book explores a huge range of material in manuscript as well as print... Isabel Rivers, University of London, MLR an absolutely excellent book, which will be required reading for the period. W.R. Ward, Theology Hindmarsh's analysis of this corpus of material is illuminating ... Hindmarsh's mastery of the disciplines of theology, history, and literary theory, together with his rigour and sound judgement, will command respect. Dr Colin Podmore, Church Times This is an outstanding book...Hindmarsh is properly critical, is deeply aware of the context, and is also splendidly readable. This is one of the finest books that I have read on the eighteenth-century evangelical revival. Evangelical Quarterly ...an exemplary analysis of a central feature of early evangelical history. Ecclesiastical History, Volume 57/3