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Jessica Neuenschwander's presentation on and close reading of Jonathan Edwards's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" started us off. From there we moved to some background on the Great Awakening and a general discussion of Edwards's mix of reason and emotion as essential to the religious experience. We looked closely at his tract on religious affections and at his "Personal Narrative." We also briefly touched on Edwards's depiction of nature and how it differs from earlier representations and his interest in the new science of the Enlightenment.
In the last 25 minutes of class, we returned to the essays written on the first day of class and the slide of "Puritans." We reexamined the question "what is a Puritan?" and inquired into how the definition found in those essays from day one might have been altered through the semester's study of Puritan texts.
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