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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kidd, Thomas S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.