Rather, the first person to do so was the nineteenth-century historian and anti-quarian Joseph Tracy, who used Edwards's otherwise unexceptional words asthe title of his famous 1842 book, The Great Awakening. Tellingly, however,Tracy's creation did not find immediate favor among American historians

Although the call for a return to complete faith and the emphasis on the omnipotence of God can be seen as the very antithesis of Enlightenment thought, which called for a greater questioning of faith and a diminishing role for God in the daily affairs of humankind,