A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the United States

Name: A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the United States
Brand: Abingdon Press
SKU: 885854
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Author: Bill J. Leonard
ISBN: 9781630885854

By: Bill J. Leonard

Abingdon Press / 2014 / Hardcover

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Whether like Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus or Wesley’s “strangely warmed heart,” the desire to meet or be met by God is as old as humanity. But America has been the fertile seed bed for what William James famously called “varieties of religious experience.” These experiences cover a wide spectrum from classic mysticism to revivalist conversion to a contemporary pursuit of spirituality. A Sense of the Heart traces the nature of religious experience from the colonial era to the present, defining its nature while describing common and distinct approaches in the work of various writers and practitioners. A Sense of the Heart offers a historical review of representative types of religious experience, the nature of such experiences and its impact on the American religious and cultural context as evident in awakenings, controversies, denominations, and new religious communities.

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Title: A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the United States
By: Bill J. Leonard
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 336
Vendor: Abingdon Press
Publication Date: 2014

Dimensions: 9 X 6 X 1 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 10 ounces
ISBN: 1630885851
ISBN-13: 9781630885854
Stock No: WW885854

Author Bio

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Bill J. Leonard is James and Marilyn Dunn Professor of Church History and Baptist Studies, Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.