Antirevivalism in antebellum America : a collection of religious voices

Part One: Presenting the issues

1. Camp-meeting craziness

Observer [George Elly], "Methodistic enthusiasm" (1845)

2. The arrogance of revival theology

Albert Baldwin Dod, "Finney's sermons" and "Finney's lectures" (1835)

Part Two: Critiques from populist movements

3. A Methodist against "extravagance"

Wesleyan methodist [John Fanning Watson], Methodist error

4. Attacking pious ignorance

Stephen Olin, "Duties of the church

tracts, Sunday schools" (1835)

Le Roy Sunderland, "Essay on a theological education" (1834)

5. The terrors of Calvinist tyranny

Ephraim Perkins, A "Bunker Hill" contest, A.D. 1826 (1826)

6. The dangers of anti-Calvinist tyranny

"Articles of faith of the Kehukee Association" (1777)

"Address to the Particular Baptist Churches of the 'old school' in the United States" (1812)

Part Three: Critiques from established traditions

7. Good taste and tolerance

[Orville Dewey], Letters of an English traveler (1828)

8. A pleas for pastoral prerogative

Calvin Colton, Thoughts on the religious state of the country (1836)

9. The "swarming pests" of Methodism

Fr[iedrich C.D.] Wyneken, The distress of the German Lutherans in North America (1843)

10. Not the anxious bench but the communion rail

John Williamson Nevin, The anxious bench (1843) and The mystical presence (1846)

11. In praise of family nurture

Horace Bushnell, Views of Christian nurture (1847)

Part Four: Reconsiderations, rehabilitations

12. Revivals in need of perfection

Charles G. Finney, "Letters on revivals" (1845-1846)

13. From ecstasy to scripture

Phoebe Palmer, The way of holiness (1843), The life and letters of Mrs. Phoebe Palmer (1881), and Faith and its effects (1861)

14. Dignified, biblical religion

Daniel Alexander Payne on education and worship (1849 and 1888)

15. From revival to romance

Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the revival of religion" (1869)

Part Five: Renegades and new departures

16. From revival to new revelation

Joseph Smith, "History, 1838"

17. From the new heart to the end of the age

Ellen G. White, Life sketches (1915)

18. From revival to secular psychology

La Roy Sunderland, Book of psychology: Pathetism (1853)

19. From revival to women's rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty years and more (1898)

20. From revival to Rome

Orestes Brownson, "Protestant revivals and Catholic retreats" (1858)