Stephen R. Yarbrough and John C. Adams ; foreword by Bernard K. Duffy.
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
1993.
1 online resource (xxiv, 176 pages) :
illustrations
Great American orators,
no. 20
0898-8277 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index.
Series Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I: Jonathan Edwards; Notes; Works Cited; Part II: Three Sermons; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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In analyzing Jonathan Edwards preaching in eighteenth-century colonial America, the authors demonstrate how his rhetoric distinguished between conversion and persuasion. The authors delineate the basic tenets of Puritan theology, place Edwards' noted sermons within an historical framework, and show how his psycho-spiritual ideas have had lasting impact on American literary, religious, and intellectual history. This reference provides a critical analysis, speech texts, chronology, and bibliography. Students and teachers of rhetoric, American history, literature, philosophy, and religion will fi.
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Delightful conviction.
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Edwards, Jonathan,1703-1758.
Edwards, Jonathan (Theologe,1703-1758)
Edwards, Jonathan,1703-1758
Conversion-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- 18th century.
Preaching-- United States-- History-- 18th century.