The Spiritual Self in Everyday Life: The Transformation of Personal Religious Experience in Nineteenth-century New England |
Contents
The Economy of Doctrinal Experience 1 Charles Backus and the Revival in Somers | 3 |
The Power of the Understanding | 16 |
A Revival of Stillness | 37 |
The Distant Logic of the Gospel Plan | 48 |
Espousal with the Local Community | 64 |
The Economy of Moral Experience 6 Lyman Beecher and the Remedy for Sins | 79 |
Faith as Confidence in Character | 85 |
Sudden Conversions and Steady Characters | 97 |
The Economy of Devotional Experience 12 Edward Payson and the Prayers of Portland | 153 |
Reverie as a Religious Exercise | 166 |
Closeness to God | 178 |
Life History and the Repetition of Holiness | 189 |
The Religion of Friendship | 204 |
Conclusion | 217 |
Notes | 243 |
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The Ways of Fixing Character | 102 |
Consecrating Character in Everyday Life | 124 |
Enlisting Character in the Moral Community | 138 |
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