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The rhetoric of the revival. The language of the Great Awakening preachers . By Michal Choinski . (New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies, 1.) Pp. 212 incl. 4 ills. Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2016. [euro]80. 978 3 525 56023 5
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The First Great Awakening of American history had a significant impact upon the American colonies. While the political, social and theological significance of the religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s has been the subject of numerous fine studies, relatively little has been written on the actual sermons that helped precipitate the awakening. Choinski explores both the stylistic and persuasive aspects of the language of the Great Awakening and the minutiae of the...