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Voices from the heart : four centuries of American piety
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- ISBN: 080283633X
- ISBN: 9780802836335
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 396 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c1987.
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Sermon and speech / John Winthrop -- Excerpt from Of Plymouth plantation / William Bradford -- Letter to his fellow missionaries / Jean de Brebeuf -- Selected letters / Marie of the incarnation -- Excerpt from "Helps to Preserve Spiritual Health and Cheerfulness" / Roger Williams -- Autobiographical excerpt / Thomas Shepherd -- Selections from his last will and testimony / Obadiah Homes -- "The Flesh and the Spirit" / Anne Bradstreet -- "Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666" / Anne Bradstreet -- "As Weary Pilgrim, Now at Rest / Anne Bradstreet -- Captivity narrative / Mary Rowlandson -- "Meditation 8, on John 6:51: I am the living bread" / Edward Taylor -- "The preface" / Edward Taylor -- "Huswifery" / Edward Taylor -- Personal narrative / Jonathan Edwards -- Spiritual travels / Nathan Cole -- Journal entries / David Brainerd -- Journal entries / John Woolman -- Journal entries / Esther Edwards Burr -- Diary entries and selected letters / Francis Asbury -- Journal Entries / Henry Alline -- Excerpts from "Joy in the Holy Spirit" / Timothy Dwight -- Selections from his memoirs / Charles G. Finney -- "Holy Living" (from The way of life) / Charles Hodge -- "The interior of a heart" (from The scarlet letter) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Excerpt from The way of holiness / Phoebe Palmer -- Narrative excerpt / G.W. Offley -- Selected documents / Abraham Lincoln -- Selected letters / C.F.W. Walther -- "The martyr" (from Uncle Tom's cabin) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Appendix to his narrative / Frederick Douglas -- "The sermon" (from Moby Dick) / Herman Melville -- "Safe in their alabaster chambers" / Emily Dickinson -- "I reckon - when I count at all" / Emily Dickinson -- "The brain - is wider than the sky" / Emily Dickinson -- "Behind me - dips eternity / Emily Dickinson -- "This world is not conclusion" / Emily Dickinson -- "The Bible is an antique volume" / Emily Dickinson -- Selected stories / Dwight L. Moody -- Excerpts from "The little office of the Holy Ghost" (from A sodality manual) / John Joseph Keane -- An address on the Bible / Woodrow Wilson -- Excerpt from Prayers of the social awakening / Walter Rauschenbusch -- Excerpt from "The heart that dared not let in the sun" (from Giants in the earth) / Ole Rolvaag -- Excerpt from The meaning of prayer / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Reverend Shegog's sermon (from The sound and the fury) / William Faulkner -- Excerpts from Leaves from the notebook of a tamed cynic / Reinhold Niebuhr -- "The gift of the treasure" (from Treasure in clay) / Fulton J. Sheen -- Selected columns / Dorothy Day -- "Following hard after God" (from The pursuit of God) / A.W. Tozer -- Excerpt from While it is day / Elton Trueblood -- Selected letters / Francis Schaeffer -- "Together" (from A man called Peter) / Catherine Marshall -- Prose Excerpts / Thomas Merton -- "The Fear of death and the hope of the resurrection" / Edward John Carnell -- Selected letters / Flannery O'Connor -- Excerpt from The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner -- Excerpt from No graven image / Elisabeth Elliot -- "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Who is in control?" / Howard Rienstra -- "Inside the walls" (from Life sentence) / Charles Colson -- Excerpt from Gracias! a Latin American journal / Henri Nouwen -- "Lifeguard" / John Updike -- Excerpt from Christ the tiger / Thomas Howard -- "A Hand in the Wound" / Virginia Stem Owens. |
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