JONATHAN EDWARDS AND THE LITTLE AWAKENING

Jonathan Edwards, Writing from the Great Awaking, Philip F. Gura, ed. (New York: Library of America, 2013) (From the book jacket: "For five months during the winter and spring of 1734-35 the frontier town of Northampton, Massachusetts, experienced a surge in religious conversions, something that has occurred several times before, in its eighty-year history. What made this revival (now known as 'the Little Awakening') different was the conviction of the town's young minister that the Holy Spirit was undertaking world-shaking work in the wilds of western New England, and his determination to publicize it in A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls, a dramatic account that quickly became an inspiration for evangelicals on both sides of the Atlantic.").