The great awakening : the roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kidd, Thomas S.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Great Awakening. Revivals > United States > History. United States > Church history > To 1775.

Table of 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.