Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Invention, 1620-1665
1. The Institutional Setting of the Sermon
2. Regular Preaching and the Sequence of Salvation
3. "Sion's Out-Casts"
II. Arrangement, 1666-1700
4. Days of Trouble and Thankful Remembrances
5. Returning Unto God: The Conversion of the Children
6. Perpetuating the Covenant in Uncertain Times: The Sermon at
Century's End
III. Style, 1701-1730
7. Anglicization
8. Regular Preaching and the New Pietism
9. Israel's Constitution
IV Delivery, 1731-1763
10. Awakening
11. A New Balance
12. War
V. Memory, 1764-1776
13. Trust in God
14. A Nation Born at Once
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History, Yale University. Editor of OUP's Religion in America series, General Editor of the Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale Press) and the Co-Director, with Jon Butler, of the Center for Religion and American Society at Yale.
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