The Great Awakening
The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
416 pages
978-0-300-14825-1 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONE: "Prayer for a Saving Issue": From Puritans to Evangelicals
- TWO: "A Shower of Divine Blessing": Jonathan Edwards and A Faithful Narrative
- THREE: "Soul-Satisfying Sealings of God's Everlasting Love": Continental Pietism, Scots-Irish Presbyterianism, and Early Evangelicalism
- FOUR: "Plentiful Effusions of God's Spirit in These Parts": George Whitefield Comes to America
- FIVE: The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry: Fractious Revivalism in the Middle Colonies
- SIX: "A Faithful Watchman on the Walls of Charlestown": Josiah Smith and Moderate Revivalism in South Carolina
- SEVEN: "This Is No Other Than the Gate of Heaven": George Whitefield in New England
- EIGHT: "Blowing Up the Divine Fire": Mass Revivalism in New England, 1740-1741
- NINE: "Minds Extraordinarily Transported": Testing the Limits of Revivalism, 1741-1742
- TEN: "Under the Impressions of a Heated Imagination": James Davenport, Andrew Croswell, and the Fracturing of New England Evangelicalism
- ELEVEN: "Beyond Any Former Outpouring of the Spirit": Debating the Legitimacy of the Awakenings
- TWELVE: "The Gospel Is Not Preached Here": The Crisis of New England Separatism
- THIRTEEN: "Bringing Them to a Subjection to the Religion of Jesus": Native American Missions
- FOURTEEN: "Ethiopia Shall Stretch Out Her Hands unto God": Slavery, African Americans, and Evangelicalism
- FIFTEEN: "Do the Holy Scriptures Countenance Such Wild Disorder?": Evangelicalism in Virginia
- SIXTEEN: "A Happy Revival of Religion in the Interior Parts": Evangelicalism in the Carolinas
- SEVENTEEN: "There Is Really a Great Awakening in Those Parts": The Evangelical Revivals of the 1760s
- EIGHTEEN: "The God of Glory Is on Our Side": Evangelicals and the American Revolution
- NINETEEN: "Many Thought the Day of Judgment Was Come": The New Light Stir of 1776-1783
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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