Item Detail
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23269
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English
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The Conversion of Parley Pratt : Investigating the Patterns of Mormon Piety
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Journal of Mormon History
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Winter 2011
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37
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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178-187
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This article focuses on "The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt" and discusses American Protestant conversion experiences. St. Paul and St. Augustine's conversion experiences are examined. The author also discusses Methodism and evangelicalism, and reviews the teachings of Jonathan Edwards, Horace Bushnell, and Charles Grandison Finney. He also reviews the several religions' definition of conversion in association with sin, salvation, and the human will.