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The great awakening : the roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America / Thomas S. Kidd.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kidd, Thomas S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revivals.
- History.
- United States--Church history--To 1775.
- United States.
- Church history.
- Great Awakening.
- Revivals--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-377) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300118872
- 0300118872
- OCLC:
- 123485245
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