Thomas S. Kidd

Thomas S. Kidd (born 1971) is an American historian of religion who is John and Sharon Yeats Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies at Baylor University,^[1][2] and Research Professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.^[3] Before becoming a professor, Kidd studied at the University of Notre Dame. He is a notable historian and author of such books as George Whitefield, a biography on the 18th-century Anglo-American preacher. Kidd credits George Whitefield as being "profoundly influential on the American nation's founding."^[4]

Thomas S. Kidd
Born	1971 (age 53–54)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Clemson University University of Notre Dame
Thesis	From Puritan to Evangelical : Changing Culture in New England, 1689-1740 (2001)
Doctoral advisor	George Marsden
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	American history ecclesiastical history
Institutions	Baylor University Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Main interests	18th-century North American evangelicalism

Books

• Kidd, Thomas S. (2009). American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691186191.

• ——— (2010). God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02277-9.

• ——— (2011). Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02810-8.

• ——— (2014). George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300182125.

• ———; Hankins, Barry (2015). Baptists in America: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199977536.

• ——— (2019). America's Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic. ISBN 978-0-310-58617-3.

• ——— (2019). American History, Combined Edition: 1492 - Present. B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 9781535982252.

• ——— (2022). Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25006-0.

Articles and chapters

• ——— (2003). ""Is It Worse to Follow Mahomet than the Devil?" Early American Uses of Islam". Church History. 72 (4): 766–790. doi:10.1017/S0009640700097377.

• ——— (2003). ""Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst": World News, Anti-Catholicism, and International Protestantism in Early-Eighteenth-Century Boston". The New England Quarterly. 76 (2): 265–290. doi:10.2307/1559905. JSTOR 1559905.

• ——— (2004). "Recovering "The French Convert": Views of the French and the Uses of Anti-Catholicism in Early America". Book History. 7 (1): 97–111. doi:10.1353/bh.2004.0018.

• ——— (2004). "Conference Review: The Edwards at 300 Symposium and the Future of Jonathan Edwards Studies". Early American Literature. 39 (2): 405. doi:10.1353/eal.2004.0030.

• ——— (2004). ""THE VERY VITAL BREATH OF CHRISTIANITY": Prayer and Revival in Provincial New England". Fides et historia. 36 (2): 19–.

• ——— (2006). "The Healing of Mercy Wheeler: Illness and Miracles among Early American Evangelicals". The William and Mary Quarterly. 63 (1): 149–170. doi:10.2307/3491729. JSTOR 3491729.

• ——— (2011). "Lauren F. Winner, A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia". Fides et Historia. 43 (2): 151.

• ——— (2013). "When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word by Peter Charles Hoffer (review)". Pennsylvania History. 80 (4): 549–551.

• ——— (2015). "The Bebbington quadrilateral and the work of the holy spirit". Fides et Historia. 47 (1): 54.

• ——— (2016). "Christ in college". First Things (265): 8.

• ——— (2023). "Nothingarians: The Fear of the Unchurched in Early National America". Journal of the Early Republic. 43 (2): 269–299. doi:10.1353/jer.2023.a897986.