Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

John Brown did not live to witness the dissolution of the steady religious culture that he had labored quietly and persistently to create throughout his career. But his successor, Edward Barnard, and longtime colleagues in the Bradford ministerial association certainly did. As they turned to assess blame for the ecclesiastical strife that plagued their once-tranquil parishes during the 1740s, they seized on a single cause: the celebrated itinerant Anglican evangelist, George Whitefield.