Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, & American CultureUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1995 - 267 páginas As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwards's works by succeeding generations, Joseph Conforti explores the construction and manipulation of the Edwards legacy and demonstrates its central place in American cultural and religious history. Most of Edwards's writings were not regularly republished or widely read until the early nineteenth century, when he emerged as a prominent thinker both in academic circles and in the new popular religious culture of the Second Great Awakening. Even after the Civil War, Edwards remained a popular figure from the Puritan past for colonial revivalists. But by the early twentieth century, scholars had again reinvented Edwards, this time deemphasizing his influence. These contrasting constructions of the one man, Conforti says, reveal the dynamic process of cultural change. |
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... evangelical culture until the Second Great Awakening . In fact , Edwards's History of Redemption was one of his posthumous works that his New Di- vinity disciples were unable to place with an American publisher . Jonathan Edwards , Jr ...
... evangelical culture until the Second Great Awakening . In fact , Edwards's History of Redemption was one of his posthumous works that his New Di- vinity disciples were unable to place with an American publisher . Jonathan Edwards , Jr ...
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... evangelical American literature that paralleled the more famous and enduring work that estab- lished American cultural and literary independence during the antebellum decades . Denominational , interdenominational , and commercial ...
... evangelical American literature that paralleled the more famous and enduring work that estab- lished American cultural and literary independence during the antebellum decades . Denominational , interdenominational , and commercial ...
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... evangelical culture . The work's most significant contribution to evangelical America was a high - flown defini- tion of true virtue as consisting of radical disinterested benevolence , a doc- trine that upheld the importance of ...
... evangelical culture . The work's most significant contribution to evangelical America was a high - flown defini- tion of true virtue as consisting of radical disinterested benevolence , a doc- trine that upheld the importance of ...
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Introduction Edwards Culture and Tradition | 1 |
The Second Great Awakening and the Cultural Revival of Edwards | 36 |
Mary Lyon Mount Holyoke Seminary and Female Piety 18301850 | 87 |
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