Issue 8 : Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
Originally published in 1985

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J. Stephen Lang and Mark A. Noll
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Puritanism Meets a New Age
Richard Lovelace
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The American Vision of a Covenant People
Harry S. Stout
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This letter was written by the twelve-year-old Jonathan Edwards to his sister Mary on May 10, 1716.
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