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Summary During The Great Awakening By Jonathan Edwards

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During the Great Awakening, New England colonies –experimented-- a period of spiritual renewal that involved rigorous, emotional prayer and vehement sermons. The purpose of this religious revival was to inspire people to attend to Church and convert nonbelievers. It is of our knowledge that Edwards grew up in an atmosphere composed of Puritan piety and teachings, therefore he was a liege believer in good and evil. According to Puritan doctrine, each individual is directly responsible to God, ergo they had to accept the consequences of their blasphemous actions. Jonathan Edwards was invited to lecture a Connecticut congregation the consequences of sin and being nonbelievers. Edwards utilizes vivid hell imagery and depicts God as presented in
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