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.
From colonial Puritans like Michael Wigglesworth to contemporary evangelicals like Billy Graham, among those who directed the course of evangelical religion and of their followers, Rubin shows that religious melancholy has shaped the ...
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After Jonathan Edwards is a collection of specially commissioned essays that track his intellectual legacies from the work of his immediate disciples that formed the New Divinity movement in colonial New England, to his impact upon European ...
An Inquiry Into the Nature of True Holiness
Boardman, George Nye. A History of New England Theology. ... In The Coming Kingdom: Essays in American Millennialism and Eschatology, edited by M. Darrol Bryant and Donald W. Dayton. Barrytown, NY: New Era Books, 1983, Buckham, ...
See, for example, the Unitarian Bernard Whitman's A Discourse on Regeneration, 2d ed. (Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1828), which not only denied the supernatural agency of God's Spirit in regeneration, but also denied the Spirit's ...
Conforti, Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement, 30. 174. See Edwards, “A Dissertation on the Nature of True Virtue,” 122–42. 175. Whittemore, The Transformation of the New England Theology, 78; see also Edwards, “A History of ...
By the end of his life, Hopkins noted that New Divinity theology was “fast increasing” in popularity among ministers and laypersons: ... 25 For the best study of Hopkins, see Conforti, Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement.
Union with Christ in American Reformed Theology William B. Evans. “ Original Sin : The State of the Question . ... Elsie Anne McKee and Brian G. Armstrong , 96-107 . Louisville : Westminster / John Knox , 1989 .