The Great Awakening : the roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America /
In the mid 18th century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the 'First Great Awakening', and their dramatic effects on American culture.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2007]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.