The Religion of the Heart: A Study of European Religious Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

by Ted A. Campbell

Book Overview

In The Religion of the Heart, Campbell surveys European and British pietistic movements of the 17th and 18th centuries. During the period of inter-Christian warfare in the 17th century a distinctive form of religious life emerged in varied cultural contexts that stressed the encounter with the divine through the affections, especially penitence and love for God.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872497461
• ISBN13: 9780872497467
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.