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

Unlike their puritan ancestors, Strict Congregationalists and Separate Baptists conceived of marriage as an “Instetution of God”—a divinely ordained union of souls—rather than a civil or economic arrangement.