The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents
A detailed examination of the First Great Awakening, this volume presents a valuable study of the spiritual movement that profoundly shaped colonial American cultural and religious life. Thomas Kidd's comprehensive introduction relies on recent scholarship to describe three contemporary views of the revivals: those of radicals in favor of them, moderates supporting them, and antirevivalists attacking them. The views and experiences of these participants and critics emerge through nearly 40...
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A detailed examination of the First Great Awakening, this volume presents a valuable study of the spiritual movement that profoundly shaped colonial American cultural and religious life. Thomas Kidd's comprehensive introduction relies on recent scholarship to describe three contemporary views of the revivals: those of radicals in favor of them, moderates supporting them, and antirevivalists attacking them. The views and experiences of these participants and critics emerge through nearly 40 documents organized into topical sections. By expanding coverage of the radicals and the ordinary people, including women, African Americans, and Native Americans, who joined the revival movement, Kidd gives students an opportunity to hear a broader collection of voices from colonial American society. The volume also includes illustrations, headnotes to the documents, a chronology of the Great Awakening, a selected bibliography, questions to consider, and an index.
Table of Contents ForewordPrefaceList of IllustrationsPART ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Contest over the Great AwakeningThe Revivals BeginGeorge Whitefield: A Media SensationThe Awakenings Flourish, 1740–1743Signs and WondersFragmentationDebating the AwakeningsRevivals in the SouthSeparatists and BaptistsHistorians, the Great Awakening, and the American RevolutionEvaluating the First Great Awakening and American EvangelicalismPART TWO. THE DOCUMENTSJonathan Edwards and the 1735 Northampton Revival1. Jonathan Edwards, A Faithful Narrative, 17372. Timothy Cutler, Critique of the Northampton Awakening, 1739George Whitefield: The Grand Itinerant3. George Whitefield, Journals, 1735–17404. Stephen Bordley, On George Whitefield, 17395. Josiah Smith, The Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 17406. Benjamin Franklin, Advertisement of Whitefield Engravings, 17427. Yale College, The Declaration of the Rector and Tutors, 1745Revivals, Conversions, and Spiritual Experiences8. Gilbert Tennent, The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 17409. Nathan Cole, A Farmer Hears Whitefield Preach, 174010. Samson Occom, Conversion, 174011. Hannah Heaton, A Farm Woman’s Conversion, 174112. Daniel Rogers, Diary, 1741–174213. Anonymous, A Vision of Heaven and Hell, 174214. Mercy Wheeler, A Physical Healing, 174315. Samuel Blair, A Short and Faithful Narrative, 174416. Samuel Buell, A Faithful Narrative of the Remarkable Revival of Religion, 176617. John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings, 1785Defining the Boundaries of the Great Awakening 18. Jonathan Edwards, The Distinguishing Marks, 174119. A.M., The State of Religion in New England, 174220. Boston News-Letter, James Davenport’s Arrest, 174221. The Testimony and Advice of an Assembly of Pastors, 174322. Boston Evening-Post, James Davenport’s Book and Clothes Burning, 174323. James Davenport, Confession and Retractions, 1744Evangelicals in the South24. George Whitefield, To the Inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and South-Carolina, 174025. Boston Post-Boy, Hugh Bryan’s Radicalism, 174226. Samuel Davies, On Virginia’s Christian Slaves, 175727. Charles Woodmason, Evangelicals in the Southern Backcountry, 1767–176828. Daniel Fristoe, A Baptismal Service in Virginia, 177129. Morgan Edwards, A Public Baptism, 1770Separatists, Baptists, and Religious Liberty30. Boston Gazette, Church Separation in Canterbury, Connecticut, 174231. A Letter from the Associated Ministers, 174532. Solomon Paine, Petition for Religious Liberty, 174833. Isaac Backus, Reasons for Separation, 175634. Isaac Backus, Conversion to Baptist Principles, 175135. Isaac Backus, An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, 177336. John Leland, The Rights of Conscience Inalienable, 1791AppendixesA Chronology of the Great Awakening (1727–1791)Questions for ConsiderationSelected BibliographyIndex
