Great Awakening A Brief History with Documents

Name: Great Awakening A Brief History with Documents
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ISBN: 9780312452254

ISBN-10: 031245225X

ISBN-13: 9780312452254

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thomas S. Kidd

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 10/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.66" wide x 8.28" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.440



Foreword


Preface


List of Illustrations



Introduction: The Contest over the Great Awakening


The Revivals Begin


George Whitefield: A Media Sensation


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