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

By 1742, thousands of New Englanders—long-standing professors and new converts alike—had embraced the theological innovations of the Whitefieldarians and were prepared to cast off the inherited traditions of the godly walk.