The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745Richard L. Bushman UNC Press Books, 1970 - 174 páginas Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. The common disdain in this secular age for impassioned religious emotion and language is merely symptomatic of the shift in values that has shunted revivals to the sidelines. The very magnitude of the previous revivals is one indication of their importance. Between 1740 and 1745 literally thousands were converted. From New England to the southern colonies, people of all ages and all ranks of society underwent the New Birth. Virtually every New England congregation was touched. It is safe to say that most of the colonists in the 1740s, if not converted themselves, knew someone who was, or at least heard revival preaching. The Awakening was a critical event in the intellectual and ecclesiastical life of the colonies. The colonists' view of the world placed much importance on conversion. Particularly, Calvinist theology viewed the bestowal of divine grace as the most crucial occurrence in human life. Besides assuring admission to God's presence in the hereafter, divine grace prepared a person for a fullness of life on earth. In the 1740s the colonists, in overwhelming numbers, laid claim to the divine power which their theology offered them. Many experienced the moral transformatoin as promised. In the Awakening the clergy's pleas of half a century came to dramatic fulfillment. Not everyone agreed that God was working in the Awakening. Many believed preachers to be demagogues, stirring up animal spirits. The revival was looked on as an emotional orgy that needlessly disturbed the churches and frustrated the true work of God. But from 1740 to 1745 no other subject received more attention in books and pamphlets. Through the stirring rhetoric of the sermons, theological treatises, and correspondence presented in this collection, readers can vicariously participate in the ecstasy as well as in the rage generated by America's first national revival. |
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Contenido
PREPARATIONS | 3 |
Samuel Willard The Peril of the Times Displayed 1700 | 5 |
Solomon Stoddard Defects of Preachers Reproved 1723 | 11 |
Gilbert Tennent Solemn Warning 1735 | 16 |
THE ITINERANTS | 19 |
The New England Weekly Journal 1739 | 22 |
5 An Invitation from the Eastern Consociation Fairfield County Connecticut 1740 | 23 |
6 George Whitefield Journals 1740 | 26 |
Jonathan Dickinson True ScriptureDoctrine 1741 | 77 |
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCHES | 85 |
23 Gilbert Tennent The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry 1740 | 87 |
Solomon Williams A Letter 1744 | 94 |
Records of the Presbyterian Church 1741 | 97 |
26 The Separates in Norwich Connecticut 17451752 | 101 |
C EXPLANATIONS FOR WITHDRAWAL 1745 | 102 |
D SUSPENSION FROM COMMUNION 1745 | 104 |
Marriage of Cana 1742 | 33 |
Boston Gazette 1741 | 35 |
Boston Gazette 1742 | 38 |
10 Correspondence of a Connecticut Itinerant 17401745 | 39 |
B JOHN LEE DECEMBER 1740 | 40 |
C DANIEL RUSSELL JANUARY 1741 | 43 |
E SAMUEL BUELL APRIL 1742 | 44 |
Boston Weekly NewsLetter 1742 | 45 |
The Declaration of A Number of the associated Pastors of Boston and CharlesTown 1742 | 50 |
Boston Weekly PostBoy 1743 | 51 |
A Letter 1743 | 53 |
Theophilus Pickering Letters 1742 | 56 |
The Public Records of Connecticut | 58 |
B THE ARREST OF BENJAMIN POMEROY 1744 | 60 |
A Letter to the Associated Ministers of Boston and Charlestown 1745 | 61 |
19 George Whitefield Journals 1744 | 65 |
THE NEW BIRTH | 66 |
The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole 1741 | 67 |
Samuel Blair A Short and Faithful Narrative 1744 | 71 |
F Two SEPARATES IN PRISON 1752 | 105 |
Ebenezer Frothingham The Articles of Faith and Practice 1750 | 107 |
ASSESSMENTS | 109 |
Samuel Finley Letter 1741 | 111 |
Charles Chauncy A Letter to Mr George Wishart 1742 | 116 |
Jonathan Edwards The Distinguishing Marks 1741 | 121 |
The Testimony of the Pastors of the Churches 1743 | 127 |
The Testimony and Advice of an Assembly 1743 | 129 |
NEW DIRECTIONS | 133 |
Experience Mayhew Grace Defended 1744 | 136 |
Joseph Bellamy True Religion Delineated 1750 | 144 |
Jonathan Edwards The Nature of True Virtue ca 1755 | 153 |
John Caldwell The Nature Folly and Evil of rash and uncharitable Judging 1742 | 157 |
Solomon Paine et al 1748 | 160 |
Samuel Davies Letter to the Bishop of London 1752 | 162 |
Jonathan Edwards The Northampton Covenant 1742 | 166 |
Aaron Burr The Watchmans Answer 1757 | 169 |
SUGGESTED READINGS | 173 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745 Richard L. Bushman Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745 Richard L. Bushman Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745 Richard L. Bushman Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
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