摘要：1]In recent years the phenomena of the first intercontinental evangelical revival, popularly known as the Great Awakening,has come under review. What was once considered an accurate depiction of an historical occurrence -a transatlantic evangelical revival -has, with this current volume, been shown to be as much an aspect of emerging popular cultural trends as an actual historical event.[2]Several views regarding the Great Awakeningcurrently exist. The first claims that contemporary historical narratives describe an actual event as it was occurring. The second suggests that the GreatAwakening was actually pieced together from earlier narratives by 19th century evangelists and historians. Lambert offers a third alternative, finding a middle road between these two. He argues that, while conversions and revivals were occurring, they were not on the scale that the contemporary 18th or early 19th century evangelists made them out to be. Lambert does an admirable job reexamining the historical sources at his disposal. Much of his attention is given to dealing with the impact of the seminal figures Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield and their influence on evangelicalism in the 18th century
