Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century, Volume 4

These sermons and theological writings emerge from an era when Christianity shaped empires, sparked revivals, and fractured over the moral question of human bondage. The collection gathers voices from across two centuries of dramatic transformation - from the First Great Awakening's burning conviction to the intellectual wars of the Victorian age. Here are preachers demanding souls be born again, apologists defending the faith against Enlightenment skepticism, educators debating the purpose of Christian formation, and biographers memorializing saints and martyrs. Some of these writers championed abolition while others defended the incomprehensible. Together they capture a tradition in furious argument with itself, grappling with modernity, science, and the blood stain of slavery across the Atlantic world. For anyone seeking to understand how 19th-century Americans justified both their revivals and their racisms, this volume holds essential, uncomfortable, and occasionally luminous evidence.