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

As if to underscore the direct connection between the “grand Itinerant” and the “grand Enthusiast,” several ministerial associations tarred Whitefield with the same charge that Benjamin Colman had famously leveled against Davenport during the summer of 1742: “deeply tinctured with Enthusiasm.”