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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"First Great Awakening"”.
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Conversion & Community: Revisiting Modern Protestant Anxieties Over “Pietistic Conversion” in Light of Conversion Narratives From the First Great Awakening
… particularly in connection to the circulation of first-person accounts of conversion experiences amongst Pietists and evangelicals. However, despite the routine assumption that such conversion narratives are often sentimentally distorted and theologically deficient, modern theological critics of …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
… over the course of its history, and differs greatly between various groups, the American Dream is a concept which runs deep in the minds of Americans to this day. This project starts the American Dream’s timeline during the Protestant Reformation, then continues on to the Puritans of New …
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The voice of faith: Jonathan Edwards's theology of prayer
… prayer played during three stressful times: his first pastorate, the First Great Awakening, and his dismissal from the church in Northampton. Chapter 4 considers the role of Christ in prayer. The answer to two questions provides the outline for Edwards's Christology: Who is Jesus? and, What is …
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Renewing Homeland and Place: Algonquians, Christianity, and Community in Southern New England, 1700-1790
… evangelical revivals known generally as the “First Great Awakening,” the adoption of New Light beliefs and practices within Algonquian communities, and the ways in which the Christian faith shaped and informed Algonquian understandings of place and community, and the protection of their lands. …
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George Whitefield's Preaching: An Evangelical Response to the Enlightenment
… Hume, Descartes, and Kant are overviewed. The First Great Awakening was the result of many cultural and theological ideas boiling over simultaneously. People were craving truth, direction, and a sense of authority. The Awakening highlighted the movement of the Holy Spirit theologically and a …
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A Reappraisal of Religious Experience in Expository Preaching in Light of Jonathan Edwards's Sense of the Heart
… debate between the Old and the New Light in the First Great Awakening, an uncomfortable phenomenon in expository preaching that polarizes affectionate religious experience and cognitive-propositional truth. It argues that expository preaching should aim at affectional application because …