Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture

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UNC Press Books, 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 gener

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Introduction Edwards Culture and Tradition
1
Inventing the Great Awakening Edwardsian Revivalistic Tradition from the New Divinity to New Measures
11
The Second Great Awakening and the Cultural Revival of Edwards
36
David Brainerd and Disinterested Benevolence in Antebellum Evangelical Culture
62
Marry Lyon Mount Holyoke Seminary and Female Piety 18301850
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The Creation and Collapse of the New England Theology Edwards A Park and Andover Seminary 18401881
108
Colonial Revival Edwards and Puritan Tradition in American Culture 18701903
145
From the Progressive to the NeoOrthodox Edwards
186
Notes
197
Selected Bibliography
239
Index
257
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Página 241 - An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer for the Revival of Religion and the Advancement of Christ's Kingdom on Earth, Pursuant to Scripture — Promises and Prophecies concerning the Last Time.

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Joseph A. Conforti is director of the American and New England studies program at the University of Southern Maine. He is author of Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings.

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