BIB 388 Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening Tradition

The course aims to investigate Jonathan Edwards as a major participant in and interpreter of the eighteenth century religious awakening, which movement has become the template against which subsequent events have been compared. We will investigate the pre-eighteenth century antecedents to the major awakening of that century, the trans-Atlantic as well as American features of the movement, and the legacy of the eighteenth century movement for subsequent epochs. Prerequisite(s): BIB 277, BIB 278. 3 hour(s).