History

Spiritual Awakenings in North America: Recommended Resources

Keith Hardman, The Spiritual Awakeners: American Revivalists from Solomon Stoddard to Dwight L. Moody . (Moody Press, 1983).

Keith Hardman, Charles Grandison Finney 1792–1875, Revivalist and Reformer . (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1987).

Earl E. Cairns, An Endless Line of Splendor . (Zondervan, 1988).

Garth Rosell and A.G. Dupuis, Memoirs of C.G. Finney . (Zondervan, 1989).

David R. Mains, The Sense of His Presence: Experiencing Spiritual Regenesis . (Word, 1988).

Richard Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal . (Inter-Varsity Press, 1979).

Timothy Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War . (Abington Press, 1957, or Harper Torchbooks).

Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield. The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth Century Revival , 2 volumes. (Banner of Truth, 1980).

The Journal of George Whitefield (Banner of Truth, 1960).

Iain Murray, Jonathan Edwards, A New Biography . (Banner of Truth, 1987).

William G. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform . (Univ. of Chicago, 1978).

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