The great awakening : the roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America / [print]
Thomas S. Kidd.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [(c)2007.
- xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
"Prayer for a saving issue" : from Puritans to Evangelicals ; "A shower of divine blessing" : Jonathan Edwards and A faithful narrative ; "Soul-satisfying sealings of God's everlasting love" : continental pietism, Scots-Irish Presbyterianism, and early evangelicalism ; "Plentiful effusions of God's spirit in these parts" : George Whitefield comes to America The danger of an unconverted ministry : fractious revivalism in the middle colonies ; "A faithful watchman on the walls of Charlestown" : Josiah Smith and moderate revivalism in South Carolina ; "This is no other than the gate of heaven" : George Whitefield in New England ; "Blowing up the divine fire" : mass revivalism in New England, 1740-1741 ; "Minds extraordinarily transported" : testing the limits of revivalism, 1741-1742 ; "Under the impressions of a heated imagination" : James Davenport, Andrew Croswell, and the fracturing of New England evangelicalism ; "Beyond any former outpouring of the Spirit" : debating the legitimacy of the awakenings ; "The Gospel is not preached here" : the crisis of New England separatism ; "Bringing them to a subjection to the religion of Jesus" : Native American missions ; "Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands unto God" : slavery, African Americans, and evangelicalism ; "Do the Holy Scriptures countenance such wild disorder?" : evangelicalism in Virginia ; "A happy revival of religion in the interior parts" : evangelicalism in the Carolinas ; "There is really a great awakening in those parts" : the evangelical revivals of the 1760s ; "The God of glory is on our side" : evangelicals and the American Revolution ; "Many thought the day of judgment was come" : the new light stir of 1776-1783.
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Great Awakening. Revivals--History.--United States