... thus create confusion and errors and lead members away from their regular church. Most Americans had moved to far into modernity to share, even in times of religious revival, Jonathan Edwards's vision of the beauty and fitness of God's sovereignty and sinful humanity's helpless dependence on the miracle of Divine Grace. From the standpoint of a scholar of the Enlightenment at the ... ...

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... strategy that had contributed to the success of the Tennents. In emotionally charged sermons, all the more powerful because they were delivered with such force and power, preachers like Jonathan Edwards described vivid, terrifying images of the corruption of human nature and the terrors awaiting the non-christians in hell. These early revivals in the northern colonies inspired some converts to ... ...

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