Most folks reading this essay will recognize the name of Jonathan Edwards in connection with the Great Awakening of the 18th century. Add to his name that of George Whitefield and eighty years after these two, the name of Charles Finney. Together these three largely shaped the heritage and practice of evangelism prevailing in the 20th century American church.
Through Jonathan Edwards’s ministry, the emoting of deep repentance as response to a message of fire and brimstone, including…
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