Since the earliest explorers set foot on North American soil, myriad cultures and movements have shaped American Christianity. From sixteenth-century Spanish Catholics to New England Puritans and Wesleyan revivalists, the history of these diverse groups is the history of the American church. The American Church History Series tells the stories of denominations and Christian movements that have molded the national religious landscape.

In this reverent survey, Leonard Woolsey Bacon traces the progress of American Christianity from the fits and starts of early Christian colonization, through crucial eras of revival and turmoil such as the Great Awakening, up to his own time near the beginning of the twentieth century. His sweeping summary highlights how, in spite of disparate Christian expressions, the nation maintained a remarkable religious unity through the late nineteenth century. In an impassioned conclusion, he imparts a ...

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