The First American Evangelical by Rick Kennedy
A Short Life of Cotton Mather
A concise intellectual biography that presents Cotton Mather as a formative figure in early American evangelicalism, tracing his role as a learned Puritan minister, prolific writer, and public intellectual whose theological zeal, pastoral innovations, and engagement with science (notably his advocacy of smallpox inoculation) shaped colonial religious culture; it examines his involvement in contentious events like the Salem witch trials while highlighting his efforts to promote revivalism, missions, and the blending of Enlightenment learning with evangelical piety, portraying him as a complex, influential, and often misunderstood architect of American religious identity.
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