Evangelical Spirituality Research Articles

From Venetian Visitor to Curial Humanist: The Development of Agostino Steuco's “Counter“-Reformation Thought*

The study of Italian humanism in the age of the Reformation has focused almost exclusively on the relationship between humanism and the ItalianSpirituali.This emphasis can be traced back to the many works of Delio Cantimori. Cantimori persistently argued that humanism, with its emphasis on scriptural studies, philology, and spiritual and ecclesiastical renewal promoted evangelical spirituality and church reform among Italians. He saw the Spirituali—many of whom were humanists—as pious, devout individuals caught between their own evangelical convictions and the traditions of a spiritually unsatisfying and morally corrupt ecclesiastical system. It was the dynamics of this spiritual crisis, fueled by the clash between evangelism and the doctrines of the church, that formed the basis of many of Cantimori's works on humanism and reform in Italy.

Evangelical Spirituality from the Wesleys to John Stott J. M. Gordon (London, S.P.C.K., 1991), 340 pp., £12.99

Evangelical Spirituality from the Wesleys to John Stott J. M. Gordon (London, S.P.C.K., 1991), 340 pp., £12.99

Book Review: Evangelical Spirituality

Book Review: Evangelical Spirituality

Evangelical Spirituality Reviewed

Evangelical Spirituality Reviewed

The Melancholy Saint: Jonathan Edwards's Interpretation of David Brainerd as a Model of Evangelical Spirituality

It often happens that the papers of a departed master are gathered and winnowed by a faithful disciple in search of one last harvest of truth: an act of respect mingled with a desire for reflected glory. But in Jonathan Edwards's editing of the diary of David Brainerd the elder served the younger.