The Trouble withChristian History

"Thomas Prince's "Great Awakening

Bibliographic Data

ID3393192
AuthorsTimothy E W Gloege (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume82
Issue1
Pages125-165
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009640712002545
OpenAlexW2168443322
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited39

TheChristian History, a revivalist newspaper edited by the Boston minister Thomas Prince, is perhaps the most important cultural artifact of eighteenth-century revivalism in New England. It provides source material for countless studies, and more recently served as an exemplar of how revival participants constructed a "Great Awakening." This essay undertakes a close historical, textual, and quantitative analysis of this two-volume periodical. It reveals complex divisions among revival supporters and surprising alignments among those who disagreed over revivalism. Attitudes toward the social order were a key factor. TheChristian Historywas central to the construction of the "Great Awakening," (a process shaped both by social power and contingencies), but failed to promote moderate revival activity as intended. Ironically, the newspaper designed by Prince to unite the Congregationalist establishment only contributed further to existing controversies

Artifact (error) · Media studies · Newspaper · Order (exchange) · Power (physics) · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies

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