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 they reassessed the revivals, many Congregational clergymen soon found themselves at odds with scores of lay men and women who continued to trumpet the revivals as an unprecedented outpouring of the Holy Spirit.