Mark Peterson

A People So Favored of God, Second Edition

History & Biography

“"The Great Awakening in Boston--the most important religious event of the eighteenth century in America's most religious city--has been an oddly neglected subject. George Harper's fine-grained and nuanced study of Boston's clergy during the revivals goes a long way toward filling this gap, by providing the most detailed view we have of what actually happened in the churches of Boston in these turbulent years.”