The Great Awakening
A Brief History with DocumentsFirst Edition| ©2008 Thomas S. Kidd
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A detailed examination of the First Great Awakening, this volume presents a valuable study of the spiritual movement that profoundly shaped colonial American cultural and religious life. Thomas Kidd’s comprehensive introduction relies on recent scholarship to describe three contemporary views of the revivals: those of radicals in favor of them, moderates supporting them, and antirevivalists attacking them. The views and experiences of these participants and critics emerge through nearly 40 documents organized into topical sections. By expanding coverage of the radicals and the ordinary people, including women, African Americans, and Native Americans, who joined the revival movement, Kidd gives students an opportunity to hear a broader collection of voices from colonial American society. The volume also includes illustrations, headnotes to the documents, a chronology of the Great Awakening, a selected bibliography, questions to consider, and an index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Contest over the Great Awakening
The Revivals Begin
George Whitefield: A Media Sensation
The Awakenings Flourish, 1740–1743
Signs and Wonders
Fragmentation
Debating the Awakenings
Revivals in the South
Separatists and Baptists
Historians, the Great Awakening, and the American Revolution
Evaluating the First Great Awakening and American Evangelicalism
PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS
Jonathan Edwards and the 1735 Northampton Revival
1. Jonathan Edwards, A Faithful Narrative, 1737
2. Timothy Cutler, Critique of the Northampton Awakening, 1739
George Whitefield: The Grand Itinerant
3. George Whitefield, Journals, 1735–1740
4. Stephen Bordley, On George Whitefield, 1739
5. Josiah Smith, The Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1740
6. Benjamin Franklin, Advertisement of Whitefield Engravings, 1742
7. Yale College, The Declaration of the Rector and Tutors, 1745
Revivals, Conversions, and Spiritual Experiences
8. Gilbert Tennent, The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 1740
9. Nathan Cole, A Farmer Hears Whitefield Preach, 1740
10. Samson Occom, Conversion, 1740
11. Hannah Heaton, A Farm Woman’s Conversion, 1741
12. Daniel Rogers, Diary, 1741–1742
13. Anonymous, A Vision of Heaven and Hell, 1742
14. Mercy Wheeler, A Physical Healing, 1743
15. Samuel Blair, A Short and Faithful Narrative, 1744
16. Samuel Buell, A Faithful Narrative of the Remarkable Revival of Religion, 1766
17. John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings, 1785
Defining the Boundaries of the Great Awakening
18. Jonathan Edwards, The Distinguishing Marks, 1741
19. A.M., The State of Religion in New England, 1742
20. Boston News-Letter, James Davenport’s Arrest, 1742
21. The Testimony and Advice of an Assembly of Pastors, 1743
22. Boston Evening-Post, James Davenport’s Book and Clothes Burning, 1743
23. James Davenport, Confession and Retractions, 1744
Evangelicals in the South
24. George Whitefield, To the Inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and South-Carolina, 1740
25. Boston Post-Boy, Hugh Bryan’s Radicalism, 1742
26. Samuel Davies, On Virginia’s Christian Slaves, 1757
27. Charles Woodmason, Evangelicals in the Southern Backcountry, 1767–1768
28. Daniel Fristoe, A Baptismal Service in Virginia, 1771
29. Morgan Edwards, A Public Baptism, 1770
Separatists, Baptists, and Religious Liberty
30. Boston Gazette, Church Separation in Canterbury, Connecticut, 1742
31. A Letter from the Associated Ministers, 1745
32. Solomon Paine, Petition for Religious Liberty, 1748
33. Isaac Backus, Reasons for Separation, 1756
34. Isaac Backus, Conversion to Baptist Principles, 1751
35. Isaac Backus, An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, 1773
36. John Leland, The Rights of Conscience Inalienable, 1791
Appendixes
A Chronology of the Great Awakening (1727–1791)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Authors
Thomas S. Kidd
The Great Awakening
First Edition| 2008
Thomas S. Kidd
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