With a short teaser of the period of the Great Awakening given by Dr. Harry Stout the previous day, today we were to look at Edwards and the awakening in greater detail. In the years just before the awakenings really took off a highly noticeable declension in church attendance and new membership was plaguing [...]

The rise of American evangelicalism has long fascinated scholars.  In his recent work, The Great Awakening, Thomas S. Kidd presents the story of American evangelicalism through the lens of the concurrent rise of American revivalism.  Revivalism has often been discussed in terms of the “First” and “Second” Great Awakenings, but such a dichotomy does not [...]