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In 173435 the frontier town of Northampton, Massachusetts, experienced a surge in religious conversions, something that had occurred several times before in its eighty-year history. What made this revival (now known as the Little Awakening) different was the conviction of the towns young minister that the holy spirit was undertaking world-shaking work in the wilds of western New England, and his determination to publicize it in A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls , a dramatic account that quickly became an inspiration for evangelicals on both sides of the Atlantic. Jonathan Edwards is recognized today as a great theologian and philosopher, one of Americas five or six major artists, in the words of the historian Perry Miller, possessed of an intelligence which, as much as Emersons, Melvilles, or Mark Twains, is both an index of American society and a comment upon it. But during his lifetime Edwards was best known as a leader of what is now called the Great Awakening. Now, in authoritative new texts prepared from first editions and manuscript sources, The Library of America brings together in one volume all of Edwardss essenti

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Author

Edwards, Jonathan; Gura, Philip F.

Publisher

Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598532548

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Literary Fiction