THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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stopped trusting himself and accepted Christ as his personal savior
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Stopping trusting his good works and accepted Christ as his personal savior
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Stopped working and accepted Christ as his personal savior
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Started to get Fs in math and accepted Christ as his personal savior
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Detailed explanation-1: -Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His theological work gave rise to a distinct school of theology known as New England theology.
Detailed explanation-2: -Puritans had already instituted the “half-Way Covenant” allowing partial church acceptance into Puritanism. Edwards viewed this as a laxing of religious zeal that had previously characterized Puritan society, and sought to drive wayward practitioners back into the church.
Detailed explanation-3: -Edwards wrote numerous sermons, books, and pamphlets that helped start the religious revival known as the Great Awakening and according to one historian, “provided pre-revolutionary America with a radical, even democratic, social and political ideology” that influenced the American Revolutionary effort.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edwards believed that indeterminism is incompatible with our dependence on God and hence with his sovereignty. If our responses to God’s grace are contra-causally free, then our salvation depends partly on us and God’s sovereignty isn’t “absolute and universal.” Freedom of the Will defends theological determinism.