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- Title: Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening (LOA #245)
- Author : Jonathan Edwards & Philip F. Gura
- Release Date : January 17, 2013
- Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,History,United States,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3083 KB
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Jonathan Edwards (1703â1758) is recognized today as a great theologian and philosopher. The historian Perry Miller has called him âone of Americaâs five or six major artists,â a writer possessed of âan intelligence which, as much as Emersonâs, Melvilleâs, or Mark Twainâs, is both an index of American society and a comment upon it.â But in his own day Edwards was best known as a leader of what is now known as the Great Awakening: a series of small-town revivals that mushroomed into a movement credited with giving birth to American evangelicalism and laying the groundwork for the American Revolution. In authoritative texts drawn from first editions and manuscript sources, this volume brings together all of Edwardsâs essential writings from and about the revivals, including the famous sermon âSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godâ and his vivid Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundreds of Souls, the work that first publicized the awakenings. Characterized by precise logic and powerful imagery, his writing continues to inspire students and spiritual seekers alike.
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