| Description |
viii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-293) and index. |
| Subject |
Great Awakening.
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Revivals -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
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Revivals -- New Jersey -- History -- 18th century.
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| ISBN |
0691043795 cloth alkaline paper |
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