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Experimental Theology in America

Name: Experimental Theology in America
Author: Patricia A. Ward
ISBN: 9781481311106

Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers

by Patricia A. Ward

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

How two French Catholics came to influence American Protestants

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In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de Fénelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional literature--one that continues to influence American evangelicals and charismatic Christians today. Down a winding (and fascinating) historical path, Ward traces how the lives and writings of these two somewhat obscure Catholic believers in Quietism came to such prominence in American spirituality--offering, in part, a fascinating glance at the role of women in the history of devotional writing.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter OneAmerican Popular Piety and Continental Spirituality: The Ecumenical Contexts of Nineteenth-Century Holiness Camp Meetings

Chapter TwoThe Reputation of Madame Guyon: Personalities, Politics, and Religious Controversy under Louis XIV

Chapter ThreeThe Dénouement of the Quietist Drama and Early Intermediaries to Protestant Circles

Chapter FourMadame Guyon and the Pietist Mind-Set: The Transmission of Quietism to German-Speaking Pennsylvania

Chapter FiveThe Praxis of Piety: Quaker and Methodist Mediation of the Works of Fénelon and Madame Guyon

Chapter SixPersons of Eminent Piety and Writers of Spiritual Wisdom: Fénelon, Madame Guyon, and Their American Readership, 1800-1840

Chapter SevenFrom Experimental Religion to Experimental Holiness: Contexts of Thomas Upham's Reinterpretation of Madame Guyon, 1840-1860

Chapter EightThe Turn to Devotional Literature: Readers of Fénelon, From Boardman, Stowe, and Bushnell to Twentieth-Century Evangelicals

Chapter NineThe Legacy of Madame Guyon from 1850 to 2000: From Romantic Sentimentalism to the Charismatic Movement

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Patricia A. Ward is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University where she served as Director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies and Chair of the Department of French and Italian. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers