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"""Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have preceded it....The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period....A very important book.""--Journal of American History ""A massive achievement, will stand as the definitive work on this important subject.""--Reviews in American History ""One of the most impressive studies of Puritan New England society to appear in this century....Throughout the work, Stout enriches, supplements and revises much of the current knowledge about colonial New England. His language, which is both precise and playful, makes the volume a delight to read.""--The Historian ""Will surely become a benchmark in the study of early American history and culture.""--Journal of the American Academy of Religion ""So soundly based on exhaustive research and so lucid in presentation, that even its most surprising conclusions carry conviction. An impressive achievement.""--Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles ""Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have preceded it....The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period....A very important book.""--Journal of American History ""A massive achievement, will stand as the definitive work on this important subject.""--Reviews in American History ""One of the most impressive studies of Puritan New England society to appear in this century....Throughout the work, Stout enriches, supplements and revises much of the current knowledge about colonial New England. His language, which is both precise and playful, makes the volume a delight to read.""--The Historian ""Will surely become a benchmark in the study of early American history and culture.""--Journal of the American Academy of Religion ""So soundly based on exhaustive research and so lucid in presentation, that even its most surprising conclusions carry conviction. An impressive achievement.""--Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles ""Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has dared to grapple with the full sweep of Puritan preaching from the founding of New England through the American Revolution.""--Nathan O. Hatch, University of Notre Dame ""An impressive addition to the literature on Puritanism. ...The breadth of his research--in both printed sermons and unprinted sermon notes--is nothing less than heroic.""--Seventeenth-Century News ""Impressive, imaginative, sensible, and lucid.""--Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ""Stout's history virtually bursts with insights....There are other books that treat the history of Puritan preaching in New England, but none as comprehensively, precisely, and intelligently as The New England Soul.""--The Christian Century ""Not only is this study of the sermon in colonial New England extraordinarily rich in analysis, but it is also history on the grand scale, with sweeping narrative power and bold interpretative insights....[The] book is such a remarkable and revealing effort that those who worry questions of church and state directly will find it a nearly indispensable resource.""--Journal of Church and State ""A fluent, wide-ranging report on the most religious era in the history of this profoundly religious nation.""--Kirkus Reviews ""An exceptionally trustworthy account. He has mastered the unpublished documents more fully than any previous writer...and uses them to give solidity and vividness to his narrative.""--The New York Times Book Review. ""A book of extraordinary range and subtlety. Stout has written an excellent account, an example of careful and graceful scholarship and a model, one hopes, for further study of the sermon in American culture.""--Theology Today ""[Stout] has created a field of scholarship hitherto neglected--the manuscript sermon as a source of religious culture in colonial times. More than that, he has shown the extent to which sermon notes add to our knowledge of the times, notably for the period of the Great Awakening. And he has done so with great insight.""--New England Quarterly ""[An] important new book.""--Newsweek ""[A] brilliant synthesis.""--American Literature ""[This] is the comprehensive survey of colonial New England preaching that recent scholarship has lacked....A richly researched, very intelligent, extremely useful book.""--Early American Literature ""A massive achievement, will stand as the definitive work on this important subject.""--Reviews in American History ""Admirable and important....The book is quite readable and the scholarship is substantial and new.""--Choice ""Such mastery of the manuscript material gives Stout's account an authority that earlier sermon studies...cannot approach....As impressive as his mastery of source material is Stout's ability to organize it.""--Evangelical Studies Bulletin ""Will be a classic for years to come...A masterful synthesis of many historical events, themes, and interpretations.""--Eternity ""The scholarship is impressive, and the argument...is skillfully conducted. The book is a powerful vindication of the principle that religious history should not be treated as a separtate category. Her, quite rightly, the constant interplay of religion, society, and politics is properly recognized.""--Reviews in Maine History"

Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have preceded it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...A very important book. Journal of American History

Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have preceded it....The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period....A very important book. --Journal of American History A massive achievement, will stand as the definitive work on this important subject. --Reviews in American History One of the most impressive studies of Puritan New England society to appear in this century....Throughout the work, Stout enriches, supplements and revises much of the current knowledge about colonial New England. His language, which is both precise and playful, makes the volume a delight to read. --The Historian Will surely become a benchmark in the study of early American history and culture. --Journal of the American Academy of Religion So soundly based on exhaustive research and so lucid in presentation, that even its most surprising conclusions carry conviction. An impressive achievement. --Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have preceded it....The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period....A very important book. --Journal of American History A massive achievement, will stand as the definitive work on this important subject. --Reviews in American History One of the most impressive studies of Puritan New England society to appear in this century....Throughout the work, Stout enriches, supplements and revises much of the current knowledge about colonial New England. His language, which is both precise and playful, makes the volume a delight to read. --The Historian Will surely become a benchmark in the study of early American history and culture. --Journal of the American Academy of Religion So soundly based on exhaustive research and so lucid in presentation, that even its most surprising conclusions carry conviction. An impressive achievement. --Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has dared to grapple with the full sweep of Puritan preaching from the founding of New England through the American Revolution. --Nathan O. Hatch, University of Notre Dame An impressive addition to the literature on Puritanism. ...The breadth of his research--in both printed sermons and unprinted sermon notes--is nothing less than heroic. --Seventeenth-Century News Impressive, imaginative, sensible, and lucid. --Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stout's history virtually bursts with insights....There are other books that treat the history of Puritan preaching in New England, but none as comprehensively, precisely, and intelligently as The New England Soul. --The Christian Century Not only is this study of the sermon in colonial New England extraordinarily rich in analysis, but it is also history on the grand scale, with sweeping narrative power and bold interpretative insights....[The] book is such a remarkable and revealing effort that those who worry questions of church and state directly will find it a nearly indispensable resource. --Journal of Church and State A fluent, wide-ranging report on the most religious era in the history of this profoundly religious nation. --Kirkus Reviews An exceptionally trustworthy account. He has mastered the unpublished documents more fully than any previous writer...and uses them to give solidity and vividness to his narrative. --The New York Times Book Review. A book of extraordinary range and subtlety. Stout has written an excellent account, an example of careful and graceful scholarship and a model, one hopes, for further study of the sermon in American culture. --Theology Today [Stout] has created a field of scholarship hitherto neglected--the manuscript sermon as a source of religious culture in colonial times. More than that, he has shown the extent to which sermon notes add to our knowledge of the times, notably for the period of the Great Awakening. And he has done so with great insight. --New England Quarterly [An] important new book. --Newsweek [A] brilliant synthesis. --American Literature [This] is the comprehensive survey of colonial New England preaching that recent scholarship has lacked....A richly researched, very intelligent, extremely useful book. --Early American Literature A massive achievement, will stand as the definitive work on this important subject. --Reviews in American History Admirable and important....The book is quite readable and the scholarship is substantial and new. --Choice Such mastery of the manuscript material gives Stout's account an authority that earlier sermon studies...cannot approach....As impressive as his mastery of source material is Stout's ability to organize it. --Evangelical Studies Bulletin Will be a classic for years to come...A masterful synthesis of many historical events, themes, and interpretations. --Eternity The scholarship is impressive, and the argument...is skillfully conducted. The book is a powerful vindication of the principle that religious history should not be treated as a separtate category. Her, quite rightly, the constant interplay of religion, society, and politics is properly recognized. --Reviews in Maine History

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Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History, Yale University. Editor of OUP's Religion in America series, General Editor of the Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale Press) and the Co-Director, with Jon Butler, of the Center for Religion and American Society at Yale.

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