Ryan P. Hoselton is Instructor and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Heidelberg University. He is the author of The Love of God Holds Creation Together: Andrew Fuller's Theology of Virtue. Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the United States at Heidelberg University and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Germany. He is the author of Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. He is the author of Edwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Michael A. G. Haykin is Professor of Church History and Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the coeditor of A New Divinity: Transatlantic Reformed Evangelical Debates During the Long Eighteenth Century and coauthor of Being a Pastor: A Conversation with Andrew Fuller.
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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Ryan P. Hoselton Part 1: Commentators and Commentaries 1. Bible Editions, Translations, and Commentaries in German Pietism Douglas H. Shantz 2. Biblical Aids, Editions, Translations, and Commentaries by Dissenters, Methodists, and Church of England Evangelicals in Eighteenth-Century England Isabel Rivers Part 2: Historical Trajectories and Transitions 3. Early Modern Dutch Reformed Exegesis and Its Pietist-Evangelical Reception Adriaan C. Neele 4. Reading the Bible: John Owen and Early Evangelical "Biblicism" Crawford Gribben 5. Bible Politics and Early Evangelicalism: nScriptural Submission and Resistance in Nonconformist Commentary Robert E. Brown 6. The Bible in Early Pietist and Evangelical Missions Ryan P. Hoselton Part 3: Interpretive Approaches, Issues, and Debates 7. The Evangelical Supernatural in Early Modern British Protestantism: Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Miracles of Jesus Douglas A. Sweeney 8. Lay Appropriations and Female Interpretations of the Bible in German Pietism Ruth Albrecht 9. "My Beloved Is White and Ruddy": Particular Baptist Readings of the Song of Songs in the Long Eighteenth Century Michael A. G. Haykin 10. Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Relationship Between Historical and Spiritual Exegesis in Early Evangelicalism Kenneth P. Minkema 11. Reading Revelation and Revelatory Readings in Early Awakened Protestantism: A Transatlantic Comparison Jan Stievermann Part 4: The Bible and Lived Religion 12. "At Any Price Give Me the Book of God!": Devotional Intent and Bible Reading for the Early Evangelicals Bruce Hindmarsh 13. Spirit of the Word: Scripture in the Lives of Evangelical and Moravian Women in the New World, 1730-1830 Benjamin M. Pietrenka and Marilyn J. Westerkamp 14. Moravians and the Bible in the Atlantic World: The Case of the Daily Watchwords in Bethlehem, PA, 1742-1745 Peter Vogt Conclusion Douglas A. Sweeney, Jan Stievermann, and Ryan P. Hoselton List of Contributors Index of Scripture General Index
". . . an important and deeply learned work." -Boyd Stanley Schlenther The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society "With its transatlantic approach, the volume makes an important contribution to research dealing with the Bible, pietism, and early evangelicalism, and stimulates research into biblical interpretation and on dealing with the Bible among neo-pietists and evangelicals in modern times." -Jan van de Kamp Church History "The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism is a pioneering work for its thorough exploitation of primary sources revealing how major Pietist and evangelical figures (and others less well known) approached the Bible-sustaining some traditions from earlier Protestantism, responding in part to the intellectual conventions of the Enlightenment, but also promoting innovations of enduring significance in using Scripture." -Mark Noll, author of Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction "The essays in The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism take a creative and to some extent new or overlooked approach to the relationship between the two diverse, though often parallel, faith traditions, Pietist and evangelical, viewed in transatlantic connection." -Bill Leonard, author of A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the U.S.