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TitleThe Great awakening : The Roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America [electronic resource]
AuthorKidd, Thomas S.
Call NoDTL 277.307 KID
CollectionEbook
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International Standard Book Number 9780300148251
Dewey Decimal Classification Number DTL 277.307 KID
Personal Name Kidd, Thomas S.
Title Statement The Great awakening : The Roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America [electronic resource]
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.
Physical Description eBook
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Summary, Etc. In the mid-eighteenth 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. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many previously unknown preachers, prophets, and penitents.The Great Awakening helped create the evangelical movement, which heavily emphasized the individual's experience of salvation and the Holy Spirit's work in revivals. By giving many evangelicals radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people, the revivals helped breed the democratic style that would come to characterize the American republic. Kidd carefully separates the positions of moderate supporters of the revivals from those of radical supporters, and he delineates the objections of those who completely deplored the revivals and their wildly egalitarian consequences. The battles among these three camps, the author shows, transformed colonial America and ultimately defined the nature of the evangelical movement.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term GREAT AWAKENING.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term REVIVALS - UNITED STATES - HISTORY.
Electronic Location and Access http://thedtl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/890477006 DTL ePlatform Full text - Book opens through link in DTL DTL