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

Here, in the towns adjacent to New London, during the weeks and months following the 1743 bonfires, one of the best-documented church schisms of the eighteenth century unmasked Whitefieldian revivalism as a frontal assault on the gospel land of light and revealed the lasting scars inflicted on the Congregational establishment by James Davenport’s incendiary itinerancy.