Memoirs of Charles G. Finney, The - Softcover

Rosell, Garth M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310219256 ISBN 13: 9780310219255

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company, 1997

Synopsis

In this new, critical edition of Finney's memoirs, Garth Rosell and Richard Dupuis have restored the complete text of the original manuscript. Included are never-before-published sections on Finney's labors in Michigan, the notorious Oberlin Lynching scandal and Finney's part in the trial, Finney's attitude toward Blacks, opposition he encountered, and his first wife's severe illness. There are also over thirty illustrations and maps that give the reader a sense of "being there."

About this title

About the Author

Richard A. G. Dupuis (M.A., Cambridge University) is a retired psychotherapist in Farnham, Surrey, England. His research over four decades has made him an expert on Finney and the early history of Oberlin College.;Garth M. Rosell (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is a professor of church history at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA, and the seminary's director of advanced studies and lifelong learning. He is also the author of American Christianity.

From the Back Cover

In preparing the first edition of The Memoirs of Charles Finney for nineteenth-century readers, James Fairchild edited or omitted what seemed to him outrageous passages, exaggerated language, and repetitions. All subsequent editions have been based on Fairchild s work. In this new, critical edition of Finney s memoirs, Garth Rosell and Richard Dupuis have restored the complete text of the original manuscript. Included are never-before-published sections on Finney s labors in Michigan, the notorious Oberlin Lynching scandal and Finney s part in the trial, Finney s attitude toward Blacks, opposition he encountered, and his first wife s severe illness. There are also over thirty illustrations and maps that give the reader a sense of "being there."

Edition details

• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0310219256
• ISBN 13: 9780310219255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 784