D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.

• Introduction ; 1. Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion Narrative ; 2. The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in the Eighteenth Century ; 3. The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John Wesley ; 4. White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Lay People ; 5. 'Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture ; 6. 'The Word Came in with Power': Conversions at Cambuslang ; 7. 'A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers ; 8. The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and Personality ; 9. The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the Gathered Church ; 10. After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its Alternatives

Based on deep knowledge of Whitefield's and especially the Wesleys' reading and vast output of writings and of the contemporary context, this book throws brilliant new light on the emergence and development of Evangelicalism, whose flame still burns bright. For anyone seeking to explore Evangelicalism, this is an admirable book.

D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.

• Introduction ; 1. Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion Narrative ; 2. The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in the Eighteenth Century ; 3. The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John Wesley ; 4. White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Lay People ; 5. 'Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture ; 6. 'The Word Came in with Power': Conversions at Cambuslang ; 7. 'A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers ; 8. The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and Personality ; 9. The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the Gathered Church ; 10. After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its Alternatives

Based on deep knowledge of Whitefield's and especially the Wesleys' reading and vast output of writings and of the contemporary context, this book throws brilliant new light on the emergence and development of Evangelicalism, whose flame still burns bright. For anyone seeking to explore Evangelicalism, this is an admirable book.

D. Bruce Hindmarsh is James M. Houston Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.

• Introduction ; 1. Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion Narrative ; 2. The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in the Eighteenth Century ; 3. The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John Wesley ; 4. White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Lay People ; 5. 'Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture ; 6. 'The Word Came in with Power': Conversions at Cambuslang ; 7. 'A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers ; 8. The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and Personality ; 9. The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the Gathered Church ; 10. After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its Alternatives

Based on deep knowledge of Whitefield's and especially the Wesleys' reading and vast output of writings and of the contemporary context, this book throws brilliant new light on the emergence and development of Evangelicalism, whose flame still burns bright. For anyone seeking to explore Evangelicalism, this is an admirable book.