1. Jonathan Edwards - An Overview
... his goals (Cady 258). Jeremiads were a common tactic used preachers at the time so Edwards was not alone, however his deeply intellectual thinking and versatile imagery, served to separate his works from the rest (258-259). The impact of Edwards, or more realistically, the Puritan ideas he preached, has been infinite and, "we continue to inhabit a world formed largely by the ... and treatises, the majority of the negatives coming from the people of his time, and the majority of the positives from critics of a later time. Edwards deeply intellectual and philosophical works often, "were n...
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