Contributors

Keith Edward Beebe is Professor of Theology at Whitworth University in Spokane, where he has taught Church History, Western Civilization, and Biblical Studies since 2001. He was the recipient of the 2005 Graves Award in the Humanities for Teaching Excellence by the American Council of Learned Societies and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Manchester Wesley Research Centre (UK) in 2014–2015. His publications include a two-volume edition of The McCulloch Examinations of the Cambuslang Revival, 1742: Conversion Narratives from the Scottish Evangelical Awakening (Scottish History Society, 2013) and a chapter in George Whitefield: Life, Context and Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is currently working on a book about the 1742 Cambuslang Revival and its contribution to the broader, transatlantic Evangelical Awakening.

Stephen R. Berry is Associate Professor of History at Simmons University, where he teaches courses in Early American, Atlantic World, and American religious history. He is the author of A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings (Yale University Press, 2015). His research focuses on maritime and religious history, particularly the lived experience and construction of culture on board sailing ships.

Robert E. Brown is Professor of Religion at James Madison University, where he teaches courses on Religion in America. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Indiana University Press, 2002), and the editor of the ninth volume of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana (Mohr Siebeck, 2018).

Vincent Carretta, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, specializes in transatlantic historical and literary studies during the long eighteenth century. In addition to more than one hundred articles and reviews on a range of eighteenth-century subjects, he has published two books on verbal and visual Anglophone political satire between 1660 and 1820, as well as authoritative editions of the works of eighteenth-century transatlantic authors of African descent. His most recent editions are of the writings of Philip Quaque (University Press of Georgia, 2010), Ignatius Sancho (Broadview, 2015), Phillis Wheatley (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Olaudah Equiano (Penguin, rev. ed., 2020). His current projects include revising his biographies of Equiano (Penguin, 2007) and Wheatley (University Press of Georgia, 2014), as well as his edition of Wheatley’s works.

Grayson Carter is Associate Professor of Church History at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he teaches courses in Church History, C. S. Lewis, Christian Spirituality, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Before that, he served in similar academic positions at Oxford and North Carolina. He is the author of Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Church of England, c. 1800–1850 (Oxford University Press and Wipf and Stock, 2001/2016), and editor of Light amid Darkness: Memoirs of Daphne Randall (Wipf and Stock, 2016). From 2007 to 2015, he was General Editor of Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal. He has published numerous book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, and articles in academic works of reference. Currently, he is writing a volume on the Western Schism, a major clerical disruption from the Church of England that commenced in 1815, and he is co-editing the diary of the nineteenth-century Oxford clergyman John Hill.

John Coffey is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of intellectual biographies of Samuel Rutherford and John Goodwin, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, c. 1558–1689 (Routledge, 2000), and Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr (Oxford University Press, 2014). He co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), and he was the editor of Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England and Ireland, c. 1690–1850 (Oxford University Press, 2016) and The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, vol. I: The Post-Reformation Era (Oxford University Press, 2020). He was part of the team that produced a scholarly edition of Richard Baxter’s Reliquiae Baxterianae (five volumes, edited by N. H. Keeble et al. (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is leading a team working on a scholarly edition of the diaries and journals of William Wilberforce.

Daniel L. Dreisbach is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He has published numerous books, book chapters, and articles in academic journals on the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American public life. His books include Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (New York University Press, 2002).

Kevin Flatt is Professor of History and Associate Dean of Humanities at Redeemer University. He is the author of After Evangelicalism: The Sixties and the United Church of Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) and has published widely on the history and sociology of Protestantism in Canada. He is currently exploring the intersections between sociological theories and historical narratives of secularization in Western societies.

Paul Gutacker is Lecturer in History at Baylor University, where he received his PhD in History in 2019. He also holds the ThM and MA from Regent College (Vancouver, BC). He studies American religious and cultural history, with a focus on evangelical Protestantism, religious memory, and uses of tradition. His work has been published in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, Fides et Historia, and CRUX. His book, The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Dr. Gutacker also serves as Director of Brazos Fellows in Waco, Texas.

David D. Hall is Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, emeritus, and research professor of American Religious History, Harvard Divinity School. Although his scholarship encompasses several fields and centuries, he is best known for his description of “popular religion” in Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Belief in Early New England (Harvard University Press, 1989), his documentary history, The Antinomian Controversy: A Documentary History, 1636–38 (1968; Duke University Press reprint edition, 1990), and The Puritans: A Transatlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2019), in which for the first time he describes the entirety of the Puritan movement from its origins in the mid-1560s to its collapse as a movement within the Church of England in the 1650s. Worlds of Wonder and The Puritans have each won the Philip Schaff Prize (American Society of Church History). Hall has also been a Guggenheim fellow as well as a senior fellow of the Huntington Library.

Timothy D. Hall is Dean of Howard College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Early American History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Some of his publications include Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World, “Structuring Provincial Imagination: The Rhetoric and Experience of Social Change in Eighteenth-Century New England” (with T. H. Breen; Duke University Press, 1994), and Anne Hutchinson: Puritan Prophet (Pearson, 2010).

Benjamin L. Hartley is Associate Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Seattle Pacific University. He studies the history of the missionary movement, especially as it relates to the history of Methodism. His current project is to write a new biography of Methodist layman John R. Mott (1865–1955) who organized world Christian movements in the early twentieth century. His 2011 book, Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism and Social Reform in Boston, 1860–1910 (New Hampshire University Press) received both an “Outstanding Dissertation Award” from the Wesleyan Theological Society and the Jesse Lee Prize from the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church. He presently serves as First Vice President of the American Society of Missiology.

Paul Harvey is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of numerous works on the subject of race and religion in American history, including most recently Martin Luther King, A Religious Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and Bounds of Their Habitation: Race and Religion in American History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

Colin Haydon is Emeritus Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Winchester. He has published widely on the history of religion in England from 1660 to 1830, including Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England c. 1714–80 (Manchester University Press, 1994) and John Henry Williams (1747–1829): “Political Clergyman” (Boydell & Brewer, 2007). He delivered the annual John Wesley Lecture at Oxford in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society.

Michael A. G. Haykin is Chair and Professor of Church History at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies. He also serves on the core faculty of Heritage Seminary in Cambridge, Ontario, where he teaches church history. He is the author of a number of books dealing with Patristic and eighteenth-century Baptist studies and the general editor of a seventeen-volume edition of the works of Andrew Fuller (Walter de Gruyter).

David Ceri Jones is Reader in Early Modern History at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Among his publications are, as co-author, The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735–1811 (University of Wales Press, 2012) and A History of Christianity in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2022), and as co-editor, Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (Routledge, 2019) and Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales (Routledge, 2020). He is currently working on a major new edition of George Whitefield’s extensive trans-Atlantic correspondence.

Thomas S. Kidd is Research Professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books including Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh (Yale University Press, 2022), Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis (Yale University Press, 2019), and The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (Yale University Press, 2007).

Lionel Laborie is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at Leiden University. His research concentrates on the cultural history of ideas and beliefs in early modern Europe, with a particular interest in religious dissenters, the Huguenot diaspora, radicalism, and underground networks in the long eighteenth century. He is the author of Enlightening Enthusiasm: Prophecy and Religious Experience in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Manchester University Press, 2015) and recently co-edited (with Ariel Hessayon) Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (three volumes; Brill, 2020).

Kenneth P. Minkema is Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center & Online Archive at Yale University. He is a member of the Research Faculty at Yale Divinity School. Besides numerous publications on Jonathan Edwards and topics in early American religious history, he is a member of the editorial team of Cotton Mather’s “Biblia Americana” and a co-editor of The Cotton Mather Reader.

Mark Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. His books include The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (InterVarsity Press, 2003) and In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492–1783 (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Paul Peucker holds a doctorate in early modern history from the University of Utrecht. He is Archivist at the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Previously he was Director of the Unity Archives in Herrnhut, Germany. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Moravian History and author of A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century (Penn State University Press, 2016) and Herrnhut: The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722–1732 (Penn State University Press, 2022).

Wendy Raphael Roberts is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY and author of Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her research on revival poetry has been supported by grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. She is currently studying the evangelical long poem’s relationship to settler colonialism and the poetic coteries connected to Phillis Wheatley Peters.

Boyd Stanley Schlenther, Emeritus Reader in History at Aberystwyth University, is author of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on George Whitefield. His publications focus on eighteenth-century British and British colonial cultural and religious history, and his books include Queen of the Methodists: The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Faith and Society (Durham Academic Press, 1997); Charles Thomson: A Patriot’s Pursuit (University of Delaware Press, 1990); The Life and Writings of Francis Makemie, Father of American Presbyterianism (Edwin Mellen, 1999) and (as co-author) The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735–1811 (University of Wales Press, 2012).

Samuel C. Smith received his PhD in History at the University of South Carolina in 1999). He is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Smith specializes in American religious and intellectual history. He is the author of A Cautious Enthusiasm: Mystical Piety and Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina (University of South Carolina Press, 2013).

Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the United States at Heidelberg University and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Germany. He has written books and essays on a broad range of topics in the fields of American religious history and American literature, including a comprehensive study of the theology and aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Schoeningh, 2007) and Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana (Mohr Siebeck, 2016). In the scholarly edition of the Biblia Americanamanuscript, he is responsible for volumes 5 and 10 (the first came out in 2015, the other is scheduled for 2022), and he serves as the executive editor of the whole project. Among other multiauthored volumes, he co-edited A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), Religion and the Marketplace in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2014), the Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards (2021), and The Handbook of American Romanticism (2021).

Robert Strivens is Lecturer in church history at London Seminary, where he was formerly Principal. He specializes in early eighteenth-century Dissent. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling and is the author of Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent (Ashgate, 2015). He is Pastor of Bradford on Avon Baptist Church.

Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. He has written widely on the history of Christianity, early modern Protestant thought, and global evangelical movements.

Anthony Trujillo is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University with an MDiv from Yale Divinity School. His research focuses on Indigenous engagements with—and resistance to—colonial/imperial religious and political regimes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Fred van Lieburg is Professor of Religious History in the Faculty of Humanities, Director of the HDC Centre for Religious History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Van Lieburg’s current projects involve the late Medieval and early modern Protestant clergies in the Netherlands, the local and international context of the Synod of Dordrecht (1618–1619), international Pietism and Revivalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, religious mobilization and popular petitions in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1930, and strong religion in European (e.g., Dutch) Bible Belts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Timothy Whelan is Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. He has published widely on British Religious Dissent and its intersections with women writers, print culture, and various Romantic figures, such as Coleridge, Hazlitt, Henry Crabb Robinson, Mary Hays, and Mary Lewis. He is the author of Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766–1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), general editor of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720–1840 (eight volumes; Routledge, 2011), and, more recently, editor, with Felicity James, of a new edition of Elizabeth Hays Lanfear’s Jacobin novel of the 1790s, Fatal Errors; or, Poor Mary-Anne, a Tale of the Last Century (Routledge, 2019).

Hilary E. Wyss is Allan K. Smith and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches early American literature, American studies, and Indigenous literatures. She is the author of more than a dozen articles, and her books include English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000), and, with Kristina Bross, Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).

Jonathan Yeager is Director of the HDC Leroy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he teaches courses on religious history and thought. A specialist in eighteenth-century evangelicalism, his publications include Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine (2011); Early Evangelicalism: A Reader (2013); and Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture (2016), all with Oxford University Press. He is currently co-editing a volume on Understanding and Teaching Religion in American History.