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Sarah Osborn's world : the rise of evangelical Christianity in early America /

In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir she created that year survives today, as do more than two thousand additional pages s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brekus, Catherine A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2013.
Colección:New directions in narrative history.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Memoir
  • Never despair
  • Name of Christ
  • Afflicted low condition
  • Amazing Grace
  • pt. II. Diaries and letters (1744-1796)
  • Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away (1744)
  • No imaginary thing (1753-1755)
  • Pinching poverty (1756-1758)
  • Love thy neighbor (1759-1763)
  • Jordan overflowing (1765-1774)
  • Latter days (1775-1787)
  • Open vision (1796)
  • Epilogue: A Protestant saint.