Enthusiasm : a chapter in the history of religion with special reference to the XVII and XVIII centuries / [print]
R.A. Knox.
- Westminster, Maryland : Christian Classics, (c)1983.
- viii, 622 pages ; 22 cm.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1950.
I. The nature of enthusiasm. -- II. The Corinthians' Letter to St.Paul. -- III. The Montanist challenge. -- IV. Donatist and Circumcellion. -- V. The underworld of the Middle Ages. Note on the descent of the Albigenses. -- Virgin Islands The pattern of medieval heresy. -- Virgin IslandsI. The Anabaptists and the Reformation. -- Virgin IslandsII. George Fox and seventeenth-century Protestantism. Note on the pre-history of Quakerism. -- IX. Jansenism: the setting. -- X. Jansenism: its genius. -- XI. Quietism: the background. -- XII. Quietism: the doctrine. -- XIII. Malaval, Petrucci, Molinos. -- XIV. Madame Guyon and the battle of the Olympians. Note on Antoinette Bourignon. -- XV. The French prophets. -- XVI. The convulsionaries of Saint-Medard. -- XVII. The Moravian tradition. -- XVIII. A profile of John Wesley. -- XIX. The parting of friends (I). -- XX. The parting of friends (II). -- XXI. Wesley and the religion of experience. -- XXII. Some vagaries of modern revivalism. -- XXIII. The philosophy of enthusiasm. -- Bibliography. -- Index.
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Enthusiasm--Religious aspects--Christianity. Church history--18th century.