Title: A cautious enthusiasm : mystical piety and evangelicalism in colonial South Carolina /
Authors: Smith, Samuel C.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Pietism South Carolina.; Evangelicalism South Carolina.; South Carolina Church history
Abstract: "Examines the religious, social, and political interplay between eighteenth-century evangelicalism and the Anglican establishment in the lowcountry South"--Back cover.
Contents: pt. 1. Transatlantic roots : origin and transmission -- "To establish once again the divine image" : mystical reflection, pietistic action, and the transatlantic roots of evangelicalism's rise -- "A second kind of trinity" : Anglicanism and mystical union -- pt. 2. Early evangelical contact : paranoia and hegemony -- "Many Romish and German corruptions" : John Wesley and George Whitefield in Georgia -- "We know Rome has her seed and harvest missionaries" : George Whitefield in South Carolina -- pt. 3. Mediating consensus : harmony, significance, and replication -- Whence the harmony? : evangelical transcendence, country ideology, and consensus in South Carolina -- "Many moral, good sort of men ... have been awakened" : provincial elites and the search for significance -- Charleston's "holy club" -- pt. 4. Negotiating an ethical maze : pietistic flexibility and the sanctification of slavery -- Reversing the curse : evangelicalism and the coming of slavery to Georgia -- "To proceed with caution" : the struggle for a safe and sanctified slavery in South Carolina -- pt. 5. Long-term implications : evangelical secularization and union -- Corpus reipublicae mysticum : pietistic secularization and political divorce -- "There is an enthusiasm in politics ... which religious notions inspire" : Henry Laurens, Christopher Gadsden, and the pietistic impulse for union.