Edwards and Revival
Edwards and Revival
This chapter explores the cultural and intellectual context for Edwards’s revival sermons preached during the “Great Awakening” of the early 1740s, concentrating on the theme of redemption with a special focus on its implications for revival preaching. The centerpiece of this preaching, indeed the apotheosis, is “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which the chapter explores theologically and rhetorically. The chapter also discusses the rhetorical significance of Edwards’s brief, handwritten, notes, which compelled a more extemporaneous delivery. Finally, it looks at the clerical opposition of “Old Lights” to Edwards and Revival as the context for Edwards’s theological treatises.
Keywords: revival, Great Awakening, George Whitefield, preaching
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