Book List for Eighteenth-Century Evangelicalism

Are you interested in eighteenth-century evangelicalism? If so, take a look at the following book list.

Cynthia Y. Aalders, To Express the Ineffable: The Hymns and Spirituality of Anne Steele (Paternoster, 2008)

Dee E. Andrews, The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture (Princeton, 2001)

David Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (Routledge, 1989)

Catherine Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (UNC, 1998)

Catherine Brekus, Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America (Yale, 2012)

Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures (Oxford, 2003)

A. Brown-Lawson, John Wesley and the Anglican Evangelicals of the Eighteenth-Century (Pentland, 1994)

Vicki Tolar Burton, Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe (Baylor, 2008)

Vincent Carretta, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (Georgia, 2005)

Vincent Carretta, Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Georgia, 2011)

J.C.D. Clark, English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Régime  (Cambridge, 2000)

Vincent Carretta, Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Georgia, 2011)

Chris Chun, The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller (Brill, 2012)

Milton J. Coalter, Gilbert Tennent, Son of Thunder: A Case Study of Continental Pietism’s Impact on the First Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies (Praeger, 1986)

Joseph A. Conforti, Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England Between the Great Awakenings (Eerdmans, 1981)

John Corrigan, The Prism of Piety: Catholick Congregational Clergy at the Beginning of the Enlightenment (Oxford, 1991)

Michael J. Crawford, Seasons of Grace: Colonial New England’s Revival Tradition in Its British Context (Oxford, 1991)

Derek H. Davis, Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 (Oxford, 2000)

Katherine Carte Engel, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Pennsylvania, 2011)

Eifion Evans, Daniel Rowland and the Great Evangelical Awakening in Wales (Banner of Truth Trust, 1985)

Arthur Fawcett, The Cambuslang Revival: The Scottish Evangelical Revival of the Eighteenth Century (Banner of Truth Trust, 1971)

John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Pennsylvania, 2009)

John Fea, Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction (Westminster John Knox, 2011)

Linford Fisher, The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America (Oxford, 2012)

John R. Fitzmier, New England’s Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817 (Indiana, 1998)

Richard L. Gawthrop, Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia (Cambridge, 1993)

Timothy George, Faithful Witness: The Life and Mission of William Carey (Christian History Institute, 1998)

John A. Grigg, The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon (Oxford, 2009)

Allen C. Guelzo, Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate (Wipf and Stock, 2008)

David D. Hall, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England (Knopf, 2011)

Timothy D. Hall, Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World (Duke, 1994)

Alan Harding, Selina: Countess of Huntingdon (Epworth, 2008)

Alan Harding, The Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion: A Sect in Action (Oxford, 2003)

Roger Hayden, Continuity and Change: Evangelical Calvinism among Eighteenth-Century Baptist Ministers Trained at Bristol Academy, 1690-1791 (Baptist Historical Society, 2006)

Michael A. G. Haykin, One Heart and One Soul: John Sutcliff of Olney (Evangelical Press, 1994)

Richard P. Heitzenrater, Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism (Kingswood, 1989)

Richard P. Heitzenrater, Wesley and the People Called Methodists (Abingdon, 1995)

David Hempton, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale, 2005)

D. Bruce Hindmarsh, The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiographies in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2008)

D. Bruce Hindmarsh, John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition (Eerdmans, 1996)

David L. Holmes, The Faiths of the Founding Fathers (Oxford, 2006)

Kenneth Hylson-Smith, Evangelicals in the Church of England: 1734-1984 (T&T Clark, 1989)

David Lyle Jeffrey, A Burning and Shining Light: English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley (Eerdmans, 1987)

David Ceri Jones, ‘A Glorious Work in the World’: Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735-1750 (Cardiff, 2004)

David Ceri Jones, Boyd Stanley Schlenther, and Eryn Mant White (eds.), The Elect Methodists: Clavinistic Methodism in England and Wales (University of Wales, 2012)

Carol F. Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker, eds., The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757 (Yale, 1984)

Thomas S. Kidd, God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Religion (Basic Books, 2010)

Thomas S. Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (Yale, 2009)

David W. Kling, A Field of Divine Wonder: the New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northeastern Connecticut, 1792-1822 (Pennsylvania, 1993)

Barbara E. Lacey, ed., The World of Hannah Heaton: The Diary of an Eighteenth-Century New England Farm Woman (Northern Illinois, 2003)

Frank Lambert, Inventing the “Great Awakening” (Princeton, 2001) 

Frank Lambert, 'Pedlar in Divinity': George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770 (Princeton, 1994)

Ned C. Landsman, From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680-1760 (Cornell, 2000)
Rebecca Larson, Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775 (UNC, 2000)

Bryan F. Le Beau, Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism (Kentucky, 1997)

Gareth Lloyd, Charles Wesley and the Struggle for Methodist Identity (Oxford, 2007)

Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810 (Oxford, 2006)

Michael McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford, 2011)

Gerald R. McDermott, Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (Oxford, 2000)

John R. McIntosh, Church and Theology in Enlightenment Scotland: The Popular Party, 1740-1800 (Tuckwell Press, 1998)

William G. McLoughlin, Isaac Backus  and the American Pietistic Tradition (Little Brown, 1967)

Phyllis Mack, Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism (Cambridge, 2011)

Jerome Dean Mahaffey, The Accidental Revolutionary: George Whitefield and the Creation of America (Baylor, 2011)

Jerome Dean Mahaffey, Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation (Baylor, 2007)

George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale, 2004)

George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Eerdmans, 2008)

J. C. S. Mason, The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800 (Royal Historical Monographs, 2011)

Richard Newman, Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers (NYU, 2009)

Mark Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (IVP, 2004)

Geoffrey F. Nuttall, Howel Harris, 1714-1773: The Last Enthusiast (University of Wales, 1965)

Geoffrey F. Nuttall, Richard Baxter and Philip Doddridge: A Study in a Tradition (Oxford, 1951)

Joseph W. Phillips, Jedidiah Morse and New England Congregationalism (Rutgers, 1983)

Colin Podmore, The Moravian Church in England, 1728-1760 (Oxford, 1998)

Amanda Porterfield, Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation (Chicago, 2012)

Clotilde Prunier, Anti-Catholic Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Peter Lang, 2004)

Henry D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (Trinity press International, 1989)

George A. Rawlyk, ed., Henry Alline: Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1987)

Isabel Rivers, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1: Whichcote to Wesley: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780 (Cambridge, 2005)
Sarah Rivett, The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (UNC, 2011)

Kenneth B. Roxburgh, Thomas Gillespie and the Origins of the Relief Church in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Peter Lang, 1999)

J. Rixey Ruffin, A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic (Oxford, 2007)

John Saillant, Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 (Oxford, 2002)

Sharon V. Salinger, Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Johns Hopkins, 2004)

Jonathan D. Sassi, Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy (Oxford, 2008)

Boyd S. Schlenther, Queen of the Methodists: The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Faith and Society (Durham, 1997)

Leigh Eric Schmidt, Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism (Eerdmans, 2001)

Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804 (Penn State, 2009)

Erik R. Seeman, Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England (Johns Hopkins, 1999)

Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: the Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (Princeton and Edinburgh, 1985)

John Howard Smith, The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion: A History of Sandemanianism in the Eighteenth Century (SUNY, 2010)

Geoffrey and Margaret Stead, The Exotic Plant: A History of the Moravian Church in Britain, 1742-2000 (Epworth, 2004)

Anne Stott, Hannah More: The First Victorian (Oxford, 2004)

Harry Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (Oxford, 1988)

Patrick P. Streiff, Reluctant Saint?: A Theological Biography of Fletcher of Madeley (Epworth, 2001)

Gordon Tait, The Piety of John Witherspoon: Pew, Pulpit, and Public Forum (Geneva, 2001)

Paul Taylor, Bold as a Lion: The Life of John Cennick, (1718-1755) Moravian Evangelist (Life Publications, 2006)

Stephen Tomkins, William Wilberforce: A Biography (Eerdmans, 2007)

Geraint Tudur, Howell Harris: From Conversion to Separation, 1735-1750 (Wales, 2000)

John R. Tyson, Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley (Eerdmans, 2008)

John R. Tyson, Charles Wesley: A Reader (Oxford, 2000)

Mark Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America (Princeton, 2010)

Mark Valeri, Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy’s New England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America (Oxford, 1994)

W. R. Ward, Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789 (Cambridge, 2010)

W. R. Ward The Protestant Evangelical Awakening (Cambridge, 2002)

Edwin Welch, Spiritual Pilgrim: A Reassessment of the Life of the Countess of Huntingdon (University of Wales, 1995)

Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625-1760 (Oxford, 1987)

Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America: 1600-1850 (Routledge, 1999)

Rachel Wheeler, To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast (Cornell, 2008)

John Wigger, Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America (Oxford, 1998 and Illinois, 2001)

John Wigger, American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists (Oxford, 2009)

John Wolffe, The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney (IVP, 2007)

Jonathan Yeager, Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine (Oxford, 2011)

B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998)