In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. ... read full description
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Mar 16, 2010
Chris
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Kidd received his Ph.D. under Marsden at Notre Dame, and clearly exhibits the trend advanced by the Wheaton-Notre Dame axis, now headed up by Mark Noll. Kidd frames the Great Awakening within a broader history of Evangelicalism in an effort to rehabilitate the Great Awakening from the formidable assaults of Jon Butler and Frank Lambert. In the intro, Kidd explicitly sets up this work as a response to Butler.
Should be read alongside Noll's *Rise of Evangelicalism*. Interestingly, in the More...
Should be read alongside Noll's *Rise of Evangelicalism*. Interestingly, in the More...
Nov 13, 2008
Larry
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This extensively researched work examines the social impact of a swelling of religious revival prior to the Revolutionary War. Its origins were found in the loss of Puritan adherents in the third generation after the Pilgrims. Traveling preachers caused mass religious hysteria to the point that they became worried that the entire movement might be the work of the devil. It saw the emergence of the first true religious celebrity, George Whitefield, who, although cross eyed was a mesmerizing speak
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Nov 11, 2008
Jonathan
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This is a good overview of the Great Awakening. Insofar as Kidd presents an original interpretation, his interpretation persuades.
Kidd emphasizes continuity. First, he argues that the Great Awakening divided American Protestants into a spectrum of three ambiguous groups, not two sharply defined ones: instead of New Lights and Old Lights, Kidd gives us "radical evangelicals," "moderate evangelicals," and "anti-revivalists." Second, Kidd argues that the More...
Kidd emphasizes continuity. First, he argues that the Great Awakening divided American Protestants into a spectrum of three ambiguous groups, not two sharply defined ones: instead of New Lights and Old Lights, Kidd gives us "radical evangelicals," "moderate evangelicals," and "anti-revivalists." Second, Kidd argues that the More...
Feb 07, 2012
Susie
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Kidd shows how the first Great Awakening was long and resulted in a new form of Protestatism: evangelicalism. He argues that evangelicalism is defined in part by its attention to the Holy Spirit, particularly in revival. While scholarship often characterizes GA groups as "Old Light" and "New Lights", Kidd argues that there were anti-revivalists, moderate evangelicasl, and radical evangelicals. This book explores the effects of the GA, but also how these three groups intera
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