The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather

by Rick Kennedy and Rick Kennedy

An accurate, sympathetic account of influential colonial Christian leader Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was the very first American evangelical.

A fresh retelling of Cotton Mather's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802872115
• ISBN13: 9780802872111
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 9.0"