Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott 1888-1957.

Enthusiasm a chapter in the history of religion with special reference to the XVII and XVIII centuries R.A. Knox. - New York Oxford University Press 1950. - viii, 622 p. 22 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1950. Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [592]-595.

The Nature of Enthusiasm -- The Corinthian's Letter to St. Paul -- The Montanist Challenge -- Donatist and Circumcellion -- The Underworld of the Middle Ages Note On the Descent of the Albigenses -- The Pattern of Medieval Heresy -- The Anabaptists and the Reformation -- George Fox and Seventeenth–Century Protestantism Note on the Pre-History of Quakerism -- Jansenism: The Setting -- Jansenism: Its Genius -- Quietism: The Background -- Quietism: The Doctrine -- Malaval, Petrucci, Molinos -- Madame Guyon and the Battle of the Olympians Note on Atoinette Bourignon -- The French Prophets -- The Convulsionaries of Saint-Médard -- The Moravian Tradition -- A Profile of John Wesley -- The Parting of Friends (I) -- The Parting of Friends (II) -- Wesley and the Religion of Experience -- Some Vagaries of Modern Revivalism -- The Philosophy of Enthusiasm

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Enthusiasm--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church history--18th century.
Church history--17th century.

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