The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America Church Government Hannah the tearful believer

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' The Free Church itself reflected a confessional evangelical and reformed position throughout the century

Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink not only cover all the traditional themes—God

reminding readers that contemplating God apart from true faith will fall short of the salvation of their soul

The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America Church Government Hannah the tearful believerIn the mid eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many