Inventing the "Great Awakening" /
This book is a history of an astounding transatlantic phenomenon, a popular evangelical revival known in America as the first Great Awakening (1735-1745). Beginning in the mid-1730s, supporters and opponents of the revival commented on the extraordinary nature of what one observer called the "g...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Opening Events: The "Great Awakenings" of the 1730s
- " ... that Religion may review in this Land"
- Revival Traditions
- "In Such an Age as This"
- Declaring the Acceptable Year of the Lord
- "the first fruits of this extraordinary and mighty Work of God's Special Grace"
- Revival in New Jersey
- Awakening in the Connecticut Valley
- A Faithful Narrative: The Northampton Revival as Told ... and Retold
- Wider Connections: An Intercolonial Great and General Awakening, 1739-1745
- "imported Divinity"
- George Whitefield and Revivalism in England
- "We Hear From Abroad": News of the English Evangelical Revival
- Why 1739?
- Promoting Whitefield in the Colonies
- The "Revival at ..."
- Local and Regional Dimensions
- Revival Narratives: A Common Script
- " ... similar facts ... are now united": Constructing a Transatlantic Awakening
- British-American Revival Networks
- Revival Magazines: "The Progress of the Gospel in England, Wales, Scotland, and America"
- Historical Connections: The Great Awakening in Salvation History
- Contested Inventions, 1742-1745
- The "grand delusion" or "great Mistakes of the present Day"
- The Revival as Artifice
- Antirevivalist Message
- Antirevivalist Publications
- "This is the Lord's Doing"
- Apologies: Defending the Revival as the Work of God
- Polemics: Attacking Opponents of the Work of God
- Differentiation: Distinguishing the Work of God from Enthusiasm
- Epilogue. "The late Revival of Religion."