Author: Daniel N. Gullotta

Daniel N. Gullotta is a historian of American religious history. He is currently at graduate student at Yale University’s School of Divinity, in the Master of Arts in Religion program, with a concentration in the History of Christianity. He holds a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies from the Australian Catholic University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology with Honours from the University of Newcastle.

Religion Posted on August 10, 2016August 28, 2016

The Great Awakening and the American Revolution

America’s Colonial Odd Couple Scholars of Jonathan Edwards have continually compared him with Benjamin Franklin. Both were born in the early eighteenth century (Edwards in 1703, only three years earlier than Franklin), and both distinguished themselves as bright young thinkers. Yet the similarities stop there, as the two have come to embody very different kinds […]

by Daniel N. Gullotta