Thomas S Kidd
Biographic Data
| ID | 1101751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Kidd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kidd |
| SIGNATURE | KIDD T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2472-915X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Brown is immortal”
The American popularity of the English evangelist Charles Spurgeon was short-circuited by the burgeoning crisis over slavery and secession. Some scholars have noted his antislavery views, but few have even commented on the controversy over his antislavery stance, or fully examined the American context of his controversial opinions in the turbulent months between John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859 and Abraham Lincoln’s nomination f…
The Spanish Empire in America
American Colonial History
Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of European colonists, Africans, and Native Americans and their encounters in colonial North America, Kidd offers fresh perspectives on these events and the period as a whole. This comp…
Who Is an Evangelical?
Benjamin Franklin
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin’s faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the “thor…
Who Is an Evangelical
A leading historian of evangelicalism offers a concise history of evangelicals and how they became who they are today Evangelicalism is arguably America’s most controversial religious movement. Nonevangelical people who follow the news may have a variety of impressions about what “evangelical” means. But one certain association they make with evangelicals is white Republicans. Many may recall that 81 percent of self†‘described white evangelicals …
The Great Awakening
In 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…
Baptists in America
Journal Article Baptists in America: A History Get access By Thomas S. Kidd and Barry Hankins. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvi, 329 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw031 Published: 01 June 2016
Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers
Journal Article Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England’s Religious Geography. Get access Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England’s Religious Geography. (Religion in North America.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 295. Cloth $60.00, e-book $46.99. Thomas S. Kidd Thomas S. Kidd Baylor University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
George Whitefield
Journal Article George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father Get access Thomas S. Kidd. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. vi, 325 pp. $38.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 534–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav406 Published: 01 September 2015
An Age of Infidels
The early national period of United States history saw furious public debates over religion, controversies that paradoxically resulted from the disestablishment of America's state churches and the constitutional ban on a national establishment of religion. Not that America lacked religious controversy before, but earlier dustups had been largely intra-Protestant, such as the feuds precipitated by the Great Awakening in the 1740s. Disestablishment…
American Evangelicalism
Maura Jane Farrelly. Papist Patriots
This book makes a significant contribution to several fields: the histories of colonial Maryland, American Catholicism, religion in general, and the American Revolution. The history of American Catholicism, Maura Jane Farrelly explains, has been dominated by stories of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century immigration and the process of immigrants' Americanization. While everyone learns in school that Maryland was founded by Catholics, these co…
Great Awakening
American Christians and Islam
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, many of America's Christian evangelicals have denounced Islam as a "demonic" and inherently violent religion, provoking frustration among other Christian conservatives who wish to present a more appealing message to the world's Muslims. Yet as Thomas Kidd reveals in this sobering book, the conflicted views expressed by today's evangelicals have deep roots in American history. Tracing Islam's role…
The Healing of Mercy Wheeler
N January 5, 1744, evangelical minister Nicholas Gilman of Durham, New Hampshire, noted in his diary that he had read the Wonderfull Narrative of Mercy Wheeler her Miraculous recovery-Glory to God. The same day in Westborough, Massachusetts, the Reverend Ebenezer Parkman recorded in his diary that Meeting relating the Story of Mercy Wheeler of Plainfield her wonderful Recovery, Mrs. Whitney Scarcely Contains. The healing of invalid Mercy Wheeler …
Passing as a Pastor
Many impostors in the eighteenth century tried to pass as pastors in North America's churches. This phenomenon showed how increasing engagement with the broader Atlantic world could carry ominous implications for colonial religious leaders, implications that would become manifest in the itinerancy of the evangelical revivals and, in the early republic, finally crush any hopes of centered American religious authority. Eighteenth-century episodes o…
"Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst"
Thomas S. Kidd, "Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst": World News, Anti-Catholicism, and International Protestantism in Early-Eighteenth-Century Boston, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Jun., 2003), pp. 265-290
"Is It Worse to Follow Mahomet than the Devil?" Early American Uses of Islam
In the last public act before his death, Benjamin Franklin parodied a proslavery speech in Congress by comparing it to a fictitious proslavery address "anno 1687" by a North African Muslim, a pirate named Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. Like proslavery southerners, the Algerian argued that he could not countenance the end of Christian slavery because it would hurt the interests of the Algerian state, there would be no way to compensate the Muslim slave mas…
Passing as a Pastor
Many impostors in the eighteenth century tried to pass as pastors in North America's churches. This phenomenon showed how increasing engagement with the broader Atlantic world could carry ominous implications for colonial religious leaders, implications that would become manifest in the itinerancy of the evangelical revivals and, in the early republic, finally crush any hopes of centered American religious authority. Eighteenth-century episodes o…
"Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst"
Thomas S. Kidd, "Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst": World News, Anti-Catholicism, and International Protestantism in Early-Eighteenth-Century Boston, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Jun., 2003), pp. 265-290
"Is It Worse to Follow Mahomet than the Devil?" Early American Uses of Islam
In the last public act before his death, Benjamin Franklin parodied a proslavery speech in Congress by comparing it to a fictitious proslavery address "anno 1687" by a North African Muslim, a pirate named Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. Like proslavery southerners, the Algerian argued that he could not countenance the end of Christian slavery because it would hurt the interests of the Algerian state, there would be no way to compensate the Muslim slave mas…
Passing as a Pastor
Many impostors in the eighteenth century tried to pass as pastors in North America's churches. This phenomenon showed how increasing engagement with the broader Atlantic world could carry ominous implications for colonial religious leaders, implications that would become manifest in the itinerancy of the evangelical revivals and, in the early republic, finally crush any hopes of centered American religious authority. Eighteenth-century episodes o…
The Healing of Mercy Wheeler
N January 5, 1744, evangelical minister Nicholas Gilman of Durham, New Hampshire, noted in his diary that he had read the Wonderfull Narrative of Mercy Wheeler her Miraculous recovery-Glory to God. The same day in Westborough, Massachusetts, the Reverend Ebenezer Parkman recorded in his diary that Meeting relating the Story of Mercy Wheeler of Plainfield her wonderful Recovery, Mrs. Whitney Scarcely Contains. The healing of invalid Mercy Wheeler …
Great Awakening
American Christians and Islam
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, many of America's Christian evangelicals have denounced Islam as a "demonic" and inherently violent religion, provoking frustration among other Christian conservatives who wish to present a more appealing message to the world's Muslims. Yet as Thomas Kidd reveals in this sobering book, the conflicted views expressed by today's evangelicals have deep roots in American history. Tracing Islam's role…
Maura Jane Farrelly. Papist Patriots
This book makes a significant contribution to several fields: the histories of colonial Maryland, American Catholicism, religion in general, and the American Revolution. The history of American Catholicism, Maura Jane Farrelly explains, has been dominated by stories of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century immigration and the process of immigrants' Americanization. While everyone learns in school that Maryland was founded by Catholics, these co…
American Evangelicalism
Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers
Journal Article Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England’s Religious Geography. Get access Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England’s Religious Geography. (Religion in North America.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 295. Cloth $60.00, e-book $46.99. Thomas S. Kidd Thomas S. Kidd Baylor University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
George Whitefield
Journal Article George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father Get access Thomas S. Kidd. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. vi, 325 pp. $38.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 534–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav406 Published: 01 September 2015
An Age of Infidels
The early national period of United States history saw furious public debates over religion, controversies that paradoxically resulted from the disestablishment of America's state churches and the constitutional ban on a national establishment of religion. Not that America lacked religious controversy before, but earlier dustups had been largely intra-Protestant, such as the feuds precipitated by the Great Awakening in the 1740s. Disestablishment…
Baptists in America
Journal Article Baptists in America: A History Get access By Thomas S. Kidd and Barry Hankins. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvi, 329 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw031 Published: 01 June 2016
The Great Awakening
In 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…
Who Is an Evangelical?
Benjamin Franklin
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin’s faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the “thor…
Who Is an Evangelical
A leading historian of evangelicalism offers a concise history of evangelicals and how they became who they are today Evangelicalism is arguably America’s most controversial religious movement. Nonevangelical people who follow the news may have a variety of impressions about what “evangelical” means. But one certain association they make with evangelicals is white Republicans. Many may recall that 81 percent of self†‘described white evangelicals …
The Spanish Empire in America
American Colonial History
Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of European colonists, Africans, and Native Americans and their encounters in colonial North America, Kidd offers fresh perspectives on these events and the period as a whole. This comp…
John Brown is immortal”
The American popularity of the English evangelist Charles Spurgeon was short-circuited by the burgeoning crisis over slavery and secession. Some scholars have noted his antislavery views, but few have even commented on the controversy over his antislavery stance, or fully examined the American context of his controversial opinions in the turbulent months between John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859 and Abraham Lincoln’s nomination f…
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