Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745

Richard Bushman has compiled a convenient collection of documents dating from 1740-1745 on the Great Awakening. Comprised of sermons, treatises, and correspondence, these documents from Solomon Stoddard, Gilbert Tennent, George Whitefield, Eleazar Wheelock, James Davenport, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Davies, and others illuminate the profound societal shift that occurred during this time of revival. Read of the conversions, analysis, exhortations, prayers, and clerical consultation from the primary documents of the men and women who lived through this singular time in American history. 174 pages, softcover.