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Samuel C. Smith, A Cautious Enthusiasm. Mystical Piety and Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina . The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia SC 2013, xii + 260 pp. ISBN 9781611171310. US $49.95.

Samuel C. Smith, A Cautious Enthusiasm. Mystical Piety and Evangelicalism in Colonial South... Samuel C. Smith’s A Cautious Enthusiasm examines the religious and intellectual outlook of the ‘provincial elites’ of colonial South Carolina with an eye to discerning distinctive forms of Christian culture developing in the southern provinces of the Atlantic seaboard. He makes a convincing case that a rationalized combination of Pietism and Evangelicalism provided a common intellectual and religious culture in this period, a “cautious enthusiasm” that marked the southern colonies as a religiously culturally distinct region of the region that would become the United States. In order to make this case, the book challenges some long-held stereotypes about Pietism, Evangelicalism, the Enlightenment, and the relationship between them. But in this respect it follows some of the best contemporary scholarship on this historical era. The book’s title echoes that of Henry Rack’s biography of John Wesley, Reasonable Enthusiast , and it has consistent reference to the works of Rack, D.W. Bebbington, and others who have paid attention to the interweaving of Pietistic, Evangelical, and Enlightenment thought in the eighteenth century. The book pays sustained attention to the intellectual backgrounds of Pietism and Evangelicalism, including their roots in medieval and Reformation-age Catholic mysticism. It points out that Anglican congregations in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

Samuel C. Smith, A Cautious Enthusiasm. Mystical Piety and Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina . The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia SC 2013, xii + 260 pp. ISBN 9781611171310. US $49.95.

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Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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1871-241X
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1871-2428
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10.1163/18712428-09403018
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Samuel C. Smith’s A Cautious Enthusiasm examines the religious and intellectual outlook of the ‘provincial elites’ of colonial South Carolina with an eye to discerning distinctive forms of Christian culture developing in the southern provinces of the Atlantic seaboard. He makes a convincing case that a rationalized combination of Pietism and Evangelicalism provided a common intellectual and religious culture in this period, a “cautious enthusiasm” that marked the southern colonies as a religiously culturally distinct region of the region that would become the United States. In order to make this case, the book challenges some long-held stereotypes about Pietism, Evangelicalism, the Enlightenment, and the relationship between them. But in this respect it follows some of the best contemporary scholarship on this historical era. The book’s title echoes that of Henry Rack’s biography of John Wesley, Reasonable Enthusiast , and it has consistent reference to the works of Rack, D.W. Bebbington, and others who have paid attention to the interweaving of Pietistic, Evangelical, and Enlightenment thought in the eighteenth century. The book pays sustained attention to the intellectual backgrounds of Pietism and Evangelicalism, including their roots in medieval and Reformation-age Catholic mysticism. It points out that Anglican congregations in

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