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

This highly subversive form of popular biblical exegesis, with deep roots in the soteriological underground of seventeenth-century English radical sectarianism, might have prefigured the phenomenon that resurfaced in Whitefieldian conversion narratives a century later.