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Inventing Revivalist Millennialism: E dwards and the S cottish Connection
Author(s) -
Friend Nathan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9809.12426
Subject(s) - history , great awakening , connection (principal bundle) , religious studies , period (music) , theology , sociology , art , aesthetics , philosophy , engineering , structural engineering
Revivalism and millennialism are important concepts that influence contemporary evangelicalism. However it was in the G reat A wakening that J onathan E dwards and select S cottish ministers first connected revivalism and millennialism together in a new evangelical print culture. Evangelical ministers used publications and personal correspondence to hypothesise that the current A tlantic revivals were signs pointing towards C hrist’s millennial kingdom. The 1740s stands as a unique decade where evangelical ministers created an influential synthesis of revivalism, social progress, and millennialism. The revivalist and millennial synthesis was a harbinger of the evangelical future for religious movements in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.