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

Recoiling from his earlier radicalism, Edwards came to believe that only a “public profession of religion” would insulate his parish from the centrifugal threats of Arminian formalism and antinomian enthusiasm.