Experimental Theology in America

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