The Olney Autobiographers: English Conversion Narrative in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Published in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
• Main Author: HINDMARSH, D. B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1998
• Subjects: Religious studies; History; Hooker; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046997005617; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022046997005617

Consider the central religious crisis in the life of each of three individuals. First, on 21 March 1748, in the belly of a ship in the dead of night, awakened by a raging North Atlantic storm which threatened to sweep all on board to a watery death, John Newton cries out to God for mercy. Second, at...