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Jonathan Edwards
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Alyson Woolston
Known as the first major philosopher in the American colonies,
is remembered today principally as the author of many
great sermons. Born in 1703, eighty years after the Puritans landed in New
England, Edwards stood between Puritan America and modern America. He was
said to be a b ....
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.... in 1736 it is still referred to
today. In 1739 these "brushfires of evangelicalism" began to spread.
Separate local revivals and new leaders began to form. It took about
fifteen years to spread throughout the Eastern Seaboard. This Great
Awakening spread from "congregation to congregation". It was so intensely
discussed that some conversations would end in mass hysteria.
During this period there was a drastic decline in the enthusiasm
for the old Puritan religion. Churches began accepting.... |
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