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

“Irrefragable to reason” but ridiculed as “enthusiasm, fanaticism, whimsy and distraction” by unbelievers, the “doctrine of a gracious nature being the immediate influence of the Spirit of God” had become an essential component of Edwards’s emerging revival theology.