Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World - Lynch, Kathleen (Executive Director, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library)

This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae.