Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, January Date: 1989. Trade Paperback. VG-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners a bit bumped, some scuffing/wear to covers. binding is straight and tight with no marks to text or other serious flaws. 1989. Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807842605 9780807842607 [US]

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Omohundro Institute, Date: 1989-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1989. Omohundro Institute ISBN 0807842605 9780807842607 [US]

New. Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. The common disdain in this secular age for impassioned religious emotion and language is merely symptomatic of the shift in values that has shunted revivals to the sidelines. The very magnitude of the previous revivals is one indication of their importance. Between 1740 and 1745 literally thousands were converted. From New England to the southern colonies, people of all ages and all ranks of society underwent the New Birth. Virtually every New England congregation was touched. It is safe to say that most of the colonists in the 1740s, if not converted themselves, knew someone who was, or at least heard revival preaching. The Awakening was a critical event in the intellectual and ecclesiastical life of the colonies. The colonists' view of the world placed much importance on conversion. Particularly, Calvinist theology viewed the bestowal of divine grace as the most crucial occurrence in human life. Besides assuring admission to God's presence in the hereafter, divine grace prepared a person for a fullness of life on earth. In the 1740s the colonists, in overwhelming numbers, laid claim to the divine power which their theology offered them. Many experienced the moral transformatoin as promised. In the Awakening the clergy's pleas of half a century came to dramatic fulfillment. ...