Great Awakening

Religion August 10, 2016 August 28, 2016

The Great Awakening and the American Revolution

by Daniel N. Gullotta

America’s Colonial Odd Couple Scholars of Jonathan Edwards have continually compared him with Benjamin Franklin. Both were born in the early eighteenth century (Edwards…

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