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Protestant autobiography in the seventeenth-century anglophone world

Lynch, Kathleen.

Protestant autobiography in the seventeenth-century anglophone world [electronic resource] / Kathleen Lynch. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae.

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Protestant converts--Biography--History and criticism.--English-speaking countries
Protestantism--History--Sources.--English-speaking countries--17th century

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