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

The notion that Jesus required a Connecticut civil magistrate to “Step in to the Help of the Lord Against the Mighty Adversary of Souls” undoubtedly would have struck most of his contemporaries as presumptuous.