Thomas S. Kidd

• American history
• ecclesiastical history

Thomas S. Kidd
Born	1971 (age 53–54)
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
Institutions	Baylor University Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Main interests	18th-century North American evangelicalism

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]

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.

References

1. "Thomas S. Kidd". Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
2. "Kidd, Thomas S." worldcat.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
3. "Historian Thomas S. Kidd Joins Midwestern Seminary Faculty as Distinguished Professor". Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. May 23, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
4. Swaim, Barton (February 13, 2015). "America's Spiritual Founding Father". The Wall Street Journal. New York. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved August 1, 2017.