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The Rhetoric of the Revival: The Language of the Great Awakening Preachers

Author : Michał Choiński

Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Page : 213 pages

File Size : 28,83 MB

Release : 2016-04-18

Category : Religion

ISBN : 3647560235

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Michał Choiński explores the language of the key preachers of the "Great Awakening" of the mid-eighteenth century, and seeks to explain the impact their sermons exerted upon colonial American audiences. The revival of the 1739–43 is recognized as an important event in American colonial history, formative for the shaping of the culture of New England and beyond. Choiński highlights a variety of inventive rhetorical mechanisms employed by these ministers evolved into what came to be called the rhetoric of the revival," became commonplace for American revivalism, and were fundamental for the persuasive power of Great Awakening preaching and the communicative success of the "New Light" ministers. "



Rhetoric of Revival

Author : Dustin A. Wood

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Page : 111 pages

File Size : 36,80 MB

Release : 2009

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Throughout America's religious history, there have been periods of increased religious sentiments leading to times of religious revitalization known as America's Great Awakenings. This thesis project performs a rhetorical criticism of exemplary sermons delivered by the prominent figure from each of America's Great Awakenings. Previous rhetorical scholarship on the Great Awakenings has typically identified broad patterns in awakening sermons, but few have focused on the internal dynamics of individual sermons. This thesis supplements these studies with an examination of the internal dynamics of individual sermons. This thesis develops standards for identifying prominent preachers and representative or exemplar sermons, and focuses on the following sermons and figures: "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts" by Charles Finney, and "Lost and Saved" by Dwight Moody. Key rhetorical features include the organization of the sermon and use of appeals to emotions and values, specifically fear and responsibility. Shifts in the organization and appeals used by each speaker can be attributed to three major factors: the dominant theological perspective (i.e. Calvinist versus Arminian views of salvation), the training and background of each preacher, and the relative diversity and size of the audiences addressed.



The Rhetoric of Revival

Author : William Ernest Goodwin

Publisher :

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 31,31 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Great Awakening

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Sentimental Readers

Author : Faye Halpern

Publisher : University of Iowa Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 35,50 MB

Release : 2013-12-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1609381866

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How could novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental rhetoric was so compelling to readers of that earlier era, why its popularity waned in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and why today it is generally characterized as overly emotional and artificial. But author Faye Halpern also does more: she demonstrates that this now despised rhetoric remains relevant to contemporary writing teachers and literary scholars. Halpern examines these novels with a fresh eye by positioning sentimentality as a rhetorical strategy on the part of these novels’ (mostly) female authors, who used it to answer a question that plagued the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century American rhetoric and oratory: how could listeners be sure an eloquent speaker wasn’t unscrupulously persuading them of an untruth? The authors of sentimental novels managed to solve this problem even as the professional male rhetoricians and orators could not, because sentimental rhetoric, filled with tears and other physical cues of earnestness, ensured that an audience could trust the heroes and heroines of these novels. However, as a wider range of authors began wielding sentimental rhetoric later in the nineteenth century, readers found themselves less and less convinced by this strategy. In her final discussion, Halpern steps beyond a purely historical analysis to interrogate contemporary rhetoric and reading practices among literature professors and their students, particularly first-year students new to the “close reading” method advocated and taught in most college English classrooms. Doing so allows her to investigate how sentimental novels are understood today by both groups and how these contemporary reading strategies compare to those of Americans more than a century ago. Clearly, sentimental novels still have something to teach us about how and why we read.



Delightful Conviction

Author : John C. Adams

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 203 pages

File Size : 36,49 MB

Release : 1993-02-03

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0313038104

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In analyzing Jonathan Edwards preaching in eighteenth-century colonial America, the authors demonstrate how his rhetoric distinguished between conversion and persuasion. The authors delineate the basic tenets of Puritan theology, place Edwards' noted sermons within an historical framework, and show how his psycho-spiritual ideas have had lasting impact on American literary, religious, and intellectual history. This reference provides a critical analysis, speech texts, chronology, and bibliography. Students and teachers of rhetoric, American history, literature, philosophy, and religion will find this in-depth study of an enigmatic great American orator pertinent for various uses. The reference defines Edwards' doctrinal stance on key religious issues of the times, describes his methods of preaching and efforts to convert sinners into saints, and assesses his influence in the eighteenth century and later. The volume covers his life, his youth and education, his revival and role in the Great Awakening of religion in America, his church's rejection and his exile. This scholarly study relates his ideas to complex theological roots in European thought, to Christian and Enlightenment discourses, and it points to the enormous effect that he has had on thinking until the twentieth century. Texts of key sermons dealing with central concepts such as divine light, sinners, and true grace are provided.



The Great Awakening

Author : Richard L. Bushman

Publisher : UNC Press Books

Page : 191 pages

File Size : 16,44 MB

Release : 2013-04-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1469600110

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Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. The common disdain in this secular age for impassioned religious emotion and language is merely symptomatic of the shift in values that has shunted revivals to the sidelines. The very magnitude of the previous revivals is one indication of their importance. Between 1740 and 1745 literally thousands were converted. From New England to the southern colonies, people of all ages and all ranks of society underwent the New Birth. Virtually every New England congregation was touched. It is safe to say that most of the colonists in the 1740s, if not converted themselves, knew someone who was, or at least heard revival preaching. The Awakening was a critical event in the intellectual and ecclesiastical life of the colonies. The colonists' view of the world placed much importance on conversion. Particularly, Calvinist theology viewed the bestowal of divine grace as the most crucial occurrence in human life. Besides assuring admission to God's presence in the hereafter, divine grace prepared a person for a fullness of life on earth. In the 1740s the colonists, in overwhelming numbers, laid claim to the divine power which their theology offered them. Many experienced the moral transformatoin as promised. In the Awakening the clergy's pleas of half a century came to dramatic fulfillment. Not everyone agreed that God was working in the Awakening. Many believed preachers to be demagogues, stirring up animal spirits. The revival was looked on as an emotional orgy that needlessly disturbed the churches and frustrated the true work of God. But from 1740 to 1745 no other subject received more attention in books and pamphlets. Through the stirring rhetoric of the sermons, theological treatises, and correspondence presented in this collection, readers can vicariously participate in the ecstasy as well as in the rage generated by America's first national revival.



Revival Sermons

Author : Daniel Baker

Publisher : Legare Street Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 11,13 MB

Release : 2023-07-18

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ISBN : 9781020912092

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This book is a collection of sermons delivered during a series of religious revivals that swept through the American South in the early years of the 20th century. Filled with fiery rhetoric, emotional appeals, and vivid stories of conversion and redemption, these sermons offer readers a fascinating glimpse into the world of Southern evangelical Christianity at a pivotal moment in its history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.





On Revival

Author : Roni Henig

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 38,53 MB

Release : 2024-11-12

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1512826596

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A critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literature On Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival,” or the idea that Hebrew—a largely unspoken language before the twentieth century—was revitalized as part of a broader national “revival” which ultimately led to the establishment of the Israeli nation-state. This story of language revival has been commemorated in Israeli popular memory and in Jewish historiography as a triumphant transformation narrative that marks the success of the Zionist revolution. But a closer look at the work of early twentieth-century Hebrew writers reveals different sentiments. Roni Henig explores the loaded, figurative discourse of revival in the work of Hebrew authors and thinkers working roughly between 1890 and 1920. For these authors, the language once known as “the holy tongue” became a vernacular in the making. Rather than embracing “revival” as a neutral, descriptive term, Henig takes a critical approach, employing close readings of canonical texts to analyze the primary tropes used to articulate this aesthetic and political project of “reviving” Hebrew. She shows that for many writers, the national mission of language revival was entwined with a sense of mourning and loss. These writers perceived—and simultaneously produced—the language as neither dead nor fully alive. Henig argues that it is this figure of the living-dead that lies at the heart of the revival discourse and which is constitutive of Jewish nationalism. On Revival contributes to current debates in comparative literary studies by addressing the limitations of the national language paradigm and thinking beyond concepts of origin, nativity, and possession in language. Informed by critical literary theory, including feminist and postcolonial critiques, the book challenges Zionism’s monolingual lens and the auto-Orientalism involved in the project of revival, questioning charged ideological concepts such as “native speaker” and “mother tongue.”