Jonathan Edwards' Conception of the Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3190262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas A Schafer, Tyler Schafer (0000-0002-9910-2642, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-66 |
| Publication date | 1955-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3161509 |
| OpenAlex | W2148088078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
As the pioneer of the New England Awakening and its literary defender, Edwards has long been associated with revivalism and sectarianism in American Protestantism. Several writers have noted that his Faithful Narrative (1737) of the 1734 Northampton revival, with its many translations and reprints, not only stimulated the Great Awakening of 1740 and later revivals but helped set the pattern of conversion experience in its more "enthusiastic" features. Attention has been called to his involvement in the "hell-fire" preaching of the revival, its emotional excesses, its distorted conception of childhood religion, and its pietistic individualism
Art · Individualism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Protestantism · Sectarianism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1966 - 2003 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |