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Article: Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800-1840.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2006
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Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800-1840. By Marianne Perciaccante. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. x + 193 pp. $49.50 cloth; $16.95 paper.
"There are two kinds of people in the world," Robert Benchley observed, "those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." The argument in this book derives from the former belief. Marianne Perciaccante finds among the early settlers of Western New York two kinds of religious disposition--one marked by interest in spiritual fervor and the other by concern for moral order--which she labels "formalist" and ...