Thomas S. Kidd is associate professor of history, Baylor University, and author of The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism, published by Yale University Press.
"Well researched, clearly written and authoritatively argued. There
is no book of comparable breadth, either chronologically or
geographically." Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame
--Mark Noll"
Despite the prodigious attention to the Great Awakening in
eighteenth-century America, there has been, amazingly, no modern
comprehensive account that looks at all regions from Nova Scotia to
Georgia.The result is a highly fragmented series of vignettes and
biographies with no overarching narrative. That void has now been
more than filled by Thomas Kidd's masterful analysis of the
eighteenth-century revivals and the evangelical movement they
spawned. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, this book
is must reading not only for early American historians, but for
anyone concerned to understand the origins of modern
evangelicalism. Harry S. Stout, Yale University
--Harry S. Stout"
It has been fifty years since Edwin Gaustad told the history of New
England s Great Awakening, and, since then, the revivals themselves
have at times been almost lost sight of in debates about the
fictions of memory and the invention of tradition.Thomas Kidd s
narrative, returning squarely to the formative events and factions
that shaped early evangelicalism, offers a valuable synoptic
account of the beginnings of this continuously important movement.
Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University
--Leigh E. Schmidt"
With this deeply researched and beautifully focused study of the
origins of American evangelicalism, Thomas Kidd gives us nothing
less than a fresh, post-revisionist understanding of the Great
Awakening. But that is not all. By casting a powerful light upon
the controversies at the outset of the evangelical movement,
particularly those revolving around the third person of the
Trinity, he illuminates the rest of that movement s conflicted
history, providing insight into its enduring complexities, and its
likely manifestations in the century ahead. Wilfred McClay, author
of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America
--Wilfred McClay"
"Despite the prodigious attention to the 'Great Awakening' in
eighteenth-century America, there has been, amazingly, no modern
comprehensive account that looks at all regions from Nova Scotia to
Georgia. The result is a highly fragmented series of vignettes and
biographies with no overarching narrative. That void has now been
more than filled by Thomas Kidd's masterful analysis of the
eighteenth-century revivals and the 'evangelical' movement they
spawned. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, this book
is must reading not only for early American historians, but for
anyone concerned to understand the origins of modern
evangelicalism."--Harry S. Stout, Yale University
--Harry S. Stout
"It has been fifty years since Edwin Gaustad told the history of
New England's Great Awakening, and, since then, the revivals
themselves have at times been almost lost sight of in debates about
the fictions of memory and the invention of tradition. Thomas
Kidd's narrative, returning squarely to the formative events and
factions that shaped early evangelicalism, offers a valuable
synoptic account of the beginnings of this continuously important
movement."--Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University
--Leigh E. Schmidt
"With this deeply researched and beautifully focused study of the
origins of American evangelicalism, Thomas Kidd gives us nothing
less than a fresh, post-revisionist understanding of the Great
Awakening. But that is not all. By casting a powerful light upon
the controversies at the outset of the evangelical movement,
particularly those revolving around the third person of the
Trinity, he illuminates the rest of that movement's conflicted
history, providing insight into its enduring complexities, and its
likely manifestations in the century ahead."--Wilfred McClay,
author of "The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America"
--Wilfred McClay
" With this deeply researched and beautifully focused study of the
origins of American evangelicalism, Thomas Kidd gives us nothing
less than a fresh, post-revisionist understanding of the Great
Awakening. But that is not all. By casting a powerful light upon
the controversies at the outset of the evangelical movement,
particularly those revolving around the third person of the
Trinity, he illuminates the rest of that movement' s conflicted
history, providing insight into its enduring complexities, and its
likely manifestations in the century ahead." -- Wilfred McClay,
author of "The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America"
" It has been fifty years since Edwin Gaustad told the history of
New England' s Great Awakening, and, since then, the revivals
themselves have at times been almost lost sight of in debates about
the fictions of memory and the invention of tradition. Thomas Kidd'
s narrative, returning squarely to the formative events and
factions that shaped early evangelicalism, offers a valuable
synoptic account of the beginnings of this continuously important
movement." -- Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University
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