Harry S. Stout

Um, but it's hard again to say what that really means.

Does that mean they're becoming more religious or they're just coming together in these communal settings more often? Now, a good question to ask is, what do these revivals have to do with the coming of the American Revolution? An historian, Harry Stout, said the revivals would create the first communication link that would be established across the colonies.

It gave colonial Americans a common experience and gave them something to talk about and established, you know, discussions of things like democracy and liberty and egalitarianism.

You know, it provides that common tradition so that when the revolution comes up and you got Jefferson in the Declaration proclaiming all men are created equal, well, because of that revivalist tradition, they could tap into that and have a real understanding of what he means and why he's saying that.

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... over a review that Iain Murray did of Harry Stout's biography of George Whitefield, uh, which was very much, uh, I, I wouldn't say Stout did a debunking job, but he was very much trying to, to bring some, uh, cool historical analysis to Whitefield, who at that point, certainly in Banner of Truth circles, was the picture of Whitefield was fixed by Dallimore's-

Yeah, two volume

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... of Whitefield.

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Uh, and S- Harry Stout wrote this, uh, uh, a more, I would say more historically grounded.

Mm-hmm.

I went to Yale to study the history of women in the United States.

And in my very first semester, I took a course on Puritanism with Harry Stout.

And it was the first time I had studied religion in an academic way.

And I was completely hooked.

So after that first semester, I became a historian of religion as well as a historian of women.

So I really owe a lot to Harry Stout, who goes by Skip, Skip Stout.

Sometimes, you know, through this series that we have here about, you know, Behold, These Truths Are Not Self-Evident, our scholar series, our speaker series that we fear, I had the chance to speak with a list of really renowned historians.

And the interesting thing is the topic that people pick sometimes tells a lot about the character, right? So you, you know, you know, You spend so much time, you're focusing on people that are specifically women and specifically people who are outside of the public eye, picking some obscure, really interesting people.