History of Revivalism in Boston, Bibliography

Outline

Part One
Revivalism
First Great Awakening in Boston, 1740

Part Two
The Revivals of 1823-24 and 1826-27
Boston Revival of 1841-42

Part Three
Revival of 1857-58
Dwight L. Moody Revival Meetings, 1870s
Billy Sunday Revival of 1916-17
Billy Graham Revival of 1950

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Bibliography

Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts. Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston’s Churches, 1885-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Boston Globe, 1877, 1916, 1917, 1950.

Bruns, Roger A. Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big Time American Evangelism. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992.

Carpenter, Joel A. Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Conrad, Arcturus Z. Boston’s Awakening: A Complete Account of the Great Boston Revival, 1909. Boston: The King’s Business Publishing Company, 1909.

Dallimore, Arnold. George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth Century Revival. 2 vols. Westchester, Ill.: Cornerstone, 1970, 1979.

Doggett, L. L. History of the Boston Young Men’s Christian Association, 1851-1901. Boston: Young Men’s Christian Association, 1901.

Dorsett, Lyle. Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1991.

Dorsett, Lyle. A Passion for Souls: The Life of D. L. Moody. Chicago: Moody Press, 1997.

Edwards, Jonathan. A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God… 3^rd edition. Boston: S. Kneeland, T. Green, 1738.

Edwards, Jonathan. Thoughts on the New England Revival. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2005. Originally published 1742.

Ellis, Arthur B. History of the First Church in Boston, 1630-1880. Boston: Hall and Whiting, 1881.

Englizian, H. Crosby. Brimstone Corner: Park Street Church, Boston. Chicago: Moody Press, 1968.

Finney, Charles G. Memoirs of Charles G. Finney. (See Chapter 33) www.gospeltruth.net/1868Memoirs/mem33.htm (accessed January 2007).

Gaustad, Edwin Scott. The Great Awakening in New England. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957.

Graham, Billy. Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco and Zondervan, 1997.

Graham, Billy. Revival in Our Time: The Story of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Campaigns. Wheaton, Ill.: Van Kampen Press, 1950.

Hambrick-Stowe, Charles E. Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1996.

Harding, Vincent. A Certain Magnificence: Lyman Beecher and the Transformation of American Protestantism, 1775-1863. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1991.

Hill, Hamilton. History of the Old South Church. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1890.

Knapp, Jacob. Autobiography of Elder Jacob Knapp. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1868.

Lambert, Frank. “Pedlar in Divinity:” George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Lindsell, Harold. Park Street Prophet: The Story of Harold Ockenga. Wheaton, Ill.: Van Kampen Press, 1951.

Long, Kathryn Teresa. The Revival of 1857-1858: Interpreting an American ReligiousAwakening. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Mears, David Otis. Life of Edward Norris Kirk. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks and Company, 1877.

Moore, Martin. Boston Revival, 1842. Wheaton, Ill.: Richard Owen Roberts, Publishers, 1980. Originally published in Boston by John Putnam in 1842.

Moody, Dwight L. To All People: Comprising Sermons, Bible Readings, Temperance Addresses, and Prayer Meeting Talks Delivered in the Boston Tabernacle from the Boston Daily Globe verbatim reports, carefully revised and corrected. Introduction by Joseph Cook. New York: E. B. Treat, 1877.

Moody, William R. The Life of Dwight L. Moody. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1900.

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Winsor, Justin, editor. The Memorial History of Boston. 4 vols. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1881.

Wisner, Benjamin B. The History of the Old South Church in Boston, in Four Sermons. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1830

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