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Thomas S. Kidd (born 1971) is an American historian, currently a Distinguished Professor at Baylor University[1][2] and Distinguished professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.[3] Before becoming a professor, Kidd studied at the University of Notre Dame. He is a notable historian and author of such books as George Whitefield, a biography on the 18th-century Anglo-American preacher. Kidd credits George Whitefield as being "profoundly influential on the American nation's founding."[4]
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Thomas S. Kidd | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | From Puritan to Evangelical : Changing Culture in New England, 1689-1740 (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Marsden |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | |
| Main interests | 18th-century North American evangelicalism |
- Kidd, Thomas S. (2009). American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691186191.
- ——— (2010). God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02277-9.
- ——— (2011). Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02810-8.
- ——— (2014). George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300182125.
- ———; Hankins, Barry (2015). Baptists in America: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199977536.
- ——— (2019). America's Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic. ISBN 978-0-310-58617-3.
- ——— (2019). American History, Combined Edition: 1492 - Present. B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 9781535982252.
- ——— (2022). Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25006-0.
Articles and chapters
- ——— (2003). ""Is It Worse to Follow Mahomet than the Devil?" Early American Uses of Islam". Church History. 72 (4): 766–790.
- ——— (2003). ""Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst": World News, Anti-Catholicism, and International Protestantism in Early-Eighteenth-Century Boston". The New England Quarterly. 76 (2): 265–290.
- ——— (2004). "Recovering "The French Convert": Views of the French and the Uses of Anti-Catholicism in Early America". Book History. 7 (1): 97–111.
- ——— (2004). "Conference Review: The Edwards at 300 Symposium and the Future of Jonathan Edwards Studies". Early American Literature. 39 (2): 405.
- ——— (2004). ""THE VERY VITAL BREATH OF CHRISTIANITY": Prayer and Revival in Provincial New England". Fides et historia. 36 (2): 19-.
- ——— (2006). "The Healing of Mercy Wheeler: Illness and Miracles among Early American Evangelicals". The William and Mary Quarterly. 63 (1): 149–170.
- ——— (2011). "Lauren F. Winner, A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia". Fides et Historia. 43 (2): 151.
- ——— (2013). "When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word by Peter Charles Hoffer (review)". Pennsylvania History. 80 (4): 549–551.
- ——— (2015). "The Bebbington quadrilateral and the work of the holy spirit". Fides et Historia. 47 (1): 54.
- ——— (2016). "Christ in college". First Things (265): 8.
- ——— (2023). "Nothingarians: The Fear of the Unchurched in Early National America". Journal of the Early Republic. 43 (2): 269–299.
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