false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg 230874 1 `I evidently saw that unless the great God of his infinite grace and bounty, had voluntarily chosen me to be a vessel of mercy, though I should desire, and long, and labour until my heart did break, no good could come of it . . . How can you tell you are Elected?' (GA, 47) In seventeenth-century England, the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, with its belief in the predetermined salvation of the few and damnation of the many, led many Christians to an anguished search for evidence of God's favour. John Bunyan's Grace Abounding records this spiritual crisis and its gruelling fluctuations between hope and despair in all its psychological intensity. It is a classic of spiritual autobiography - a genre which flourished in seventeenth-century England, as anxiety over one's spiritual state encouraged rigorous self-scrutiny and the sharing of spiritual experiences. This edition sets Grace Abounding alongside four of the most interesting and varied contemporary spiritual autobiographies, making its cultural milieu more meaningful to the modern reader. 223606 19 11 1998 Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies (Oxford World's Classics) total:5|5:1|4:3|2:1| 5 19 11 0 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 0 0 false Thu Oct 15 04:20:25 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 04:20:25 -0700 2009 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 0 0 false Tue Mar 24 06:24:07 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 06:24:07 -0700 2009 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 0 0 false Wed Feb 18 18:12:29 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 09:47:37 -0800 2009 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 0 0 false Sun Nov 02 07:01:20 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 07:01:21 -0800 2008 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 0 0 false Mon Sep 29 10:48:30 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 10:48:33 -0700 2008 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 2 0 false Sat Sep 06 18:04:59 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 14:16:22 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 18:04:59 -0700 2008 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 4 0 false Mon May 26 05:55:28 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 05:55:28 -0700 2008 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 4 0 false Tue Feb 26 16:38:41 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 16:39:19 -0800 2008 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 5 0 false Fri Jan 11 13:10:05 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 13:10:05 -0800 2008 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 0 0 false Wed May 23 15:13:58 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 14:48:45 -0700 2007 230874 0192821326 9780192821324 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172928742m/230874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230874.Grace_Abounding_With_Other_Spiritual_Autobiographies 4 0 false Wed May 23 11:17:07 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 11:17:07 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=230874