Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Keywords
Catherine Livingston Garrettson', Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, Sanctification
Abstract
In October 1837, Catherine Livingston Garrettson, a devout Methodist and a prolific writer, made note of a personal jubilee in her diary: "This blessed month is near its end and I have been honored to see my 85 years, and the 50 years of my spiritual birth:' Just as 14 October 1752 dated her entrance into mortal life, for Catherine, 13 October 1787 marked an even more meaningful "birthday" -the anniversary of the day she experienced justification and came to desire personal sanctification ( the point in which a believer is transformed and purified through the grace of Christ and thus filled with the love of God). Catherine's reverence for these dates-reminders to remain a committed follower of Jesus-served as the catalyst behind and the central focus of what would become over sixty years worth of her own reflective writings about the process of sanctification.
Recommended Citation
Cope, Rachel
(2012)
"Emptied and Filled: Catherine Livingston Garrettson's Quest for Sanctification,"
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment: Vol. 3, Article 13.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rae/vol3/iss1/13