The great awakening :the roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America /Thomas S. Kidd.
Description
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, 174-1741 -- 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.
xix, 392 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
Book Details
Author
Kidd, Thomas S.
Place Published
City
New Haven
Date Published
2007
Publication Subjects
Great Awakening.
Revivals--United States--History.
Call No.
BR520 .K53 2007
ISBN
9780300118872 (cloth : alk. paper), 0300118872
LCCN
2007015816
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-377) and index.