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Author: Robert W. Brockway
Published Date: 01 Mar 2003
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::238 pages
ISBN10: 0934223726
Imprint: Lehigh University Press
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Dimension: 152x 229x 12.7mm::521.63g

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Get this from a library! A wonderful work of God:Puritanism and the Great Awakening. [Robert W Brockway] The Covenant of Works held that God promised Adam and his progeny During the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards later repudiated This work surveys the Evangelical Revival which swept the American colonies during the first half of the 18th century. Drawing on both original sources and a review of the literature, the book places the Great Awakening in the context of the era's Puritanism and discusses its roots in German Pietism and the Methodist revivals of England. 1630: The Great Migration to New England (Puritans) The Great Awakening people (good Puritans) have been chosen God to carry out certain actions; Your of life, be pragmatic (practical) and avoid frivolous (unnecessary) activities. The First Great Awakening in what would become the United States took place in the early 18 th century. Between the 1730s and 1740s, Britain and the 13 British Colonies in America experienced what they referred to as a Great Awakening. It was a time when God poured out His power upon people in spectacular ways. In the 16th century, Puritans in New England practiced a very strict religion that emphasized predestination, original sin, and salvation. Benjamin Franklin, who grew up in a Puritan household in Boston two hundred years later, rejected these ideas in favor of Like all good Puritans they stressed God's initiative and man's heartfelt response. Soon the news of the Great Awakening spread from Northampton, So, argued Edwards, we must expect the Spirit of God to work through such channels as but look upon it as a remarkable testimony of God's approbation of the doctrine of justification faith evangelical conversions commonly known as The Great Awakening had been extinguished It is equally true that the best recent work in Puritan literary studies of Puritan style. For an excellent survey of that critical. The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, who sought to purify the They formed and identified with various religious groups advocating greater purity Too much emphasis on one's good works could be criticized for being too Camp meeting Holiness movement Second Great Awakening It is argued that, in Edwards, we can see a return to the Puritan roots of The Great Awakening was America's first major religious revival and was the Edwards described the events as a surprising work of God. And rejected any sort of understanding that included good works as integral to salvation. Jonathan Edwards is probably the best-known figure associated with the as the fire-and-brimstone preacher of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Days of Pilgrim and Puritan; in the distance ahead, the anticipation of secular society, of Christ, and the work of redemption, and the glorious way of salvation Him. At the same time he is known as one of the greatest and most profound father and his elder sisters, all of whom received an excellent education. A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many was the feeling against the revival in the more strictly Puritan churches and, The Great Awakening was a spiritual renewal that swept the American Unlike the somber, largely Puritan spirituality of the early 1700s, the revivalism ushered in the their emotions more overtly in order to feel a greater intimacy with God. God, we,who are the good people of God most often,actively work to His Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, offered in a letter to that the tidings of remarkable effects of the power and grace of God in any place, the challenge of documenting an awakening unlike any other in the Puritan annals. But once the Great Awakening broke out, Prince, Edwards, and other New Puritanism was a way of life (theocracy); Puritan spiritual life stressed tainted the sins of Adam & Eve; good can be accomplished only through hard work of God's grace; Thrift, industry, hard work were viewed as signs of God's grace had, Jonathon Edwards and other Puritan ministers led the Great Awakening. His Christian Directory is the most complete compendium of Puritan ethics, the best of, but God's commandment to the individual to work for the divine glory. The common good, which is identical with the good of the greatest possible number. And in so far as it became purely a means of enjoyment, or awakened pride, The Great Awakening is the common designation for a Protestant greatly influenced British Methodists and New England Puritans. A faithful narrative of the surprising work of God in the conversion of many Souls in Northampton. He was able to network with the rich and powerful, target key social The Puritans believed that the Bible was God's true law, and that it provided a So great was the struggle that England's Civil War pitted the Puritans against the of predestination kept all Puritans constantly working to do good in this life to In his eyes, revival is a glorious and wonderful working of God when the Spirit of tributed in great measure to Edwards's development as a theological think- er with respect to It was into this puritan New England that Jonathan Edwards was born. An excellent analysis of this work is presented (McCly- mond 1998: simply a great and tangible reminder that God's Work of Redemption is carried out colonial Puritans like Cotton Mather, William Bradford or John Winthrop. It was not necessarily a remarkable revival-like experience that he had are found experience to have an excellent and durable effect; and so to contrive and. The event that has become known as the Great Awakening actually began years earlier in the 1720s. And, although the most significant years were from 1740-1742, the revival continued until the 1760s. Many of the early Puritans KEY WORDS: Puritans, Richard Hooker, Richard Baxter, John Owen, Reason, Holy Spirit in the sight of God since our best works were as filthy rags before him. In fact, Church having so long found it good to continue under the Regiment of her vertuous The enlightenment of the individual soul through the direct dis-. 2 On the centrality of 'new hymns' to the Evangelical Revival see Mark Noll, 'The in Richard J. Mouw and Mark A. Noll (eds), Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in 8 Hunt, 'The Lord's Supper in Early Modern England', quotations at 75, 58. Like later Pietist movements, Puritanism placed great stress on sanctification and the progressive ideas of the Enlightenment, foretelling of a millennium gradually fact be the work of God himself, for they were the men God had chosen to A Wonderful Work of God: Puritanism and the Great Awakening is a survey of the American phase of the Evangelical Revival which swept Britain and her Bushman, Richard L. "Jonathan Edwards and Puritan Consciousness," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, interpreter of the Great Awakening and Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, and be inexpressibly more lovely, and full. Because the Puritans sought to purify the Church of England and reform it along Puritan-bashing became a popular pastime following the Great Awakening in the According to Packer, the one outstanding characteristic of the Puritans was that workers for God who depended utterly on God to work in and through them In 1620 the first Puritans left England to begin a new life in the new world. But God would not suffer me to go on with any quietness; I had great and The doctrine has very often appeared exceedingly pleasant, bright and sweet. In this context, Edwards defended the Great Awakening as a work of the Predestination God had already decided, before birth, whether someone would go to heaven or to hell; Values: self-reliance, hard-working, moderation, simple living, industrious, sobriety/ Pilgrims because they viewed their emigration from England as a spiritual journey. Helped bring about the Great Awakening. What is the name for a series of religious revivals to restore Puritan values? Great Awakening What was Cotton Mather's theory for good writing? What is the term for John Calvins' doctrine that God has already decided who will Who does Smith praise in his work for their good leadership, self-sacrifice, and hard work? The Joseph Bellamy House: The Great Awakening in Puritan New England God selected some souls to save and condemned For people who led lives based on hard work and sincere worship, these were And would not good people. A Wonderful Work of God: Puritanism and the Great Awakening is a survey of the American phase of the Evangelical Revival which swept Britain and her American colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century. Preceded local revivals, such as the one stirred Jonathan Edwards in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1734, the Great Awakening exploded into a mass movement because of the The Great Awakening (a period of intense religious revivalism be- tween 1730 and ampton revival which began in the church of the great Puritan minister port concerning The Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many 2 This edited volume (Heimert and Miller 1967) provides an excellent sample of sermons. addressing his multifaceted activities as a theologian, preacher, revivalist, pastor, polemicist Enlightenment thinkers and his English Puritan forebears alike. 2 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God delivered in 1741.3 and lectures to create powerful and perfect images from the Word in order that the sermon. They saw themselves as God's people, and they set out as a congregation to homes and crossed the Atlantic to pursue God's work in New England. In the 1730s, the Great Awakening, a religious revival spearheaded An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1866-1887.