A History of American Christianity
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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 hopeful vision of continued ecumenical cooperation.
Top Highlights
“It was not from the willful inhumanity of the Southern colonies, but from their terrors, that those slave codes came forth which for nearly two centuries were the shame of America and the scandal of Christendom.” (Page 153)
“Augustine, were laid with solemn religious rites by the toil of the first negro slaves; and the event was signalized by one of the most horrible massacres in recorded history, the cold-blooded and perfidious extermination, almost to the last man, woman, and child, of a colony of French Protestants that had been planted a few months before at the mouth of the St. John’s River.” (Page 10)