Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom

In 1748 the evangelical Presbyterian pastor Archibald Simpson, a young Scottish minister who was trained at the University of Glasgow and served several congregations in the South Carolina lowcountry between 1754 and 1772, began keeping a devotional diary in which he recorded his daily activities and spiritual reflections. Containing approximately 3,500 pages and around 1.5 million words, Simpson's too-often-neglected diary, written over some thirty-six years, is of immense historical importance for understanding not only the interior experiences of eighteenth-century Christian evangelicals but also the origins and development of Protestant evangelicalism in the British Atlantic world. Until recently, Simpson's life and work were known to the scholarly community largely through George Howe's two-volume History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina (1870, 1883). However, Simpson is here the subject of an important new book that deserves wide readership. By way of approaching Simpson's life, Peter N. Moore embraces the new narrative

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