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

For this radicalized cohort of new converts—men and women who dated their conversions to the descent of potent biblical impulses or believed that they had been carried to heaven in visions and shown their names in the Book of Life—the prospect that miraculous dispensations of the Holy Spirit ceased with the close of the apostolic age seemed absurd—even blasphemous.