Final - Awakening

Question 1

Who was Jonathan Edwards?

Answer 1

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America’s most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards’ theological work is broad in scope but rooted in the pedobaptist Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life’s work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Question 2

How old was Jonathan Edwards when he attends Yale?

Answer 2

He attended Yale at 12 years old to study Greek and Hebrew.

Question 3

When did Jonathan Edwards graduate and in what class?

Answer 3

He graduated first in class in 1720.

Question 4

When did Jonathan Edwards serve as pulpit supply in the Presbytery church?

Answer 4

It was in 1722.

Question 5

What was JE known for?

Answer 5

He was known for being meticulous and would write sermons up to five times!

Question 6

When were the JE resolutions were written and how many were there?

Answer 6

Jonathan Edwards wrote 70 resolutions between 1722 and 1723.

Question 7

What did JE do between 1724 - 1726?`

Answer 7

Jonatha Edwards served as a tutor at Yale and was also was called to serve as an assistant to Solomon Stoddard. Solomon Stoddard was the pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He succeeded Rev. Eleazer Mather, and later married his widow around 1670.

Question 8

When did Solomon Stoddard pass away?

Answer 8

He passed away in 1729, leaving Jonathan Edwards to become a pastor of 700 people.

Question 9

What was JE’s 1731 sermon about?

Answer 9

God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man’s dependence upon him, in the whole of it.

Question 10

What was the faithful narrative by JE in 1737 about?

Answer 10

A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton is an essay written in 1737 by Jonathan Edwards about the process of Christian conversion in Northampton, Massachusetts during the Great Awakening, which emanated from Edwards’ congregation in 1734.

Question 11

What were sinners in the hand of an angry God?

Answer 11

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is a sermon written by the American Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to profound effect, and again on July 8, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut.

Question 12

What was Heaven, A World Of Love?

Answer 12

It was a famous sermon by Jonathan Edwards on 1 Corinthians 13:8–10.

Question 13

When were distinguishing marks of the work of the Spirit published?

Answer 13

It was the first part of a series of sermons from Jonathan Edwards in 1741.

Question 14

What are the five signs of genuine revival?

Answer 14

1. Jesus is exalted.
2. The work of the Spirit is when sin is diminished.
3. People hold up scripture.
4. Truth and error are clearly delineated.
5. The spirit operates as a Spirit of love for the lord, brothers, and sisters.

Question 15

When was the treatise of religious affections written by Jonathan Edwards?

Answer 15

It was written in 1746. This is when the Holy Spirit and the Gospel take root, believers show 12 signs of affections.

Question 16

When was Jonathan Edwards voted out of his congregation?

Answer 16

It was in 1750.

Question 17

What does Edwards do after being voted out?

Answer 17

He goes 40 miles west to disciple native Americans. Edwards is a missionary in Stockbridge MA. During this time he writes “Freedom of will” and “Original Sin” dissertation, in 1765.

Question 18

When does Jonathan Edwards arrive at Princeton?

Answer 18

He arrives on Jan. 22, 1758. Edwards takes a smallpox vaccine and dies.

Question 19

Who was John Wesley?

Answer 19

John Wesley (1703–1791), was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist, who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.

Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1726 and ordained as an Anglican priest two years later. He led the “Holy Club”, a society formed for the purpose of the study and the pursuit of a devout Christian life; it had been founded by his brother Charles and counted George Whitefield among its members. After an unsuccessful ministry of two years, serving at Christ Church, in the Georgia colony of Savannah, he returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians. On 24 May 1738, he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conversion, when he felt his “heart strangely warmed”. He subsequently left the Moravians and began his own ministry.

Question 20

Who establishes the “Holy Clubs” or “Methodists”?

Answer 20

That would be John Wesley. He started college disciple groups that turned into “Holy Clubs”. They developed an intense and methodical approach to Bible reading, visitation of the poor. Methodists believe there is a “method” to reaching holiness. It boils down to scheduling.

Question 21

When does John Wesley come to America?

Answer 21

That would be in 1735 with his brother which served under General James Oglethorpe, in Georgia.

Question 22

When was John Wesley’s personal experience?

Answer 22

It was in 1738, where he has the experience while with the Moravians; while reading Luther’s preface to the book of Romans. In October of 1738, he picks up a book by Jonathan Edwards “faithful narrative”, and it made a great impact on him. This led Wesley to republish the book in England. Wesley was also asked to preach in Bristol, to which Wesley was scandalized and not ready. He preached to 3,000 people in the open air and afterward said that the whole world was his parish.

Question 23

What is awakening?

Answer 23

It’s the whole world as the parish.

Question 24

What was John Wesley’s quadrilateral?

Answer 24

The Wesleyan Quadrilateral, or Methodist Quadrilateral, is a methodology for theological reflection that is credited to John Wesley, leader of the Methodist movement in the late 18th century. The term itself was coined by 20th century American Methodist scholar Albert C. Outler.

This method based its teaching on four sources as the basis of theological and doctrinal development. These four sources are scripture, tradition, reason, and Christian experience.

Question 25

When did John Wesley break with George Whitfield?

Answer 25

Break with George Whitefield (1714–1770).