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

Over the course of the seventeenth century, however, pneumatology receded from theological prominence, as New England ministers increasingly emphasized preparation for salvation, the orderly means of grace, tribalism, sacramental obligations, and the rational springs of the created cosmos.