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

Hastings’s desire to divide the Suffield church between newborn saints and unregenerate hypocrites gestured toward a second major source of ecclesiastical discord: spiritual discernment, perhaps the defining characteristic of James Davenport’s inspired ministry.