Delightful Conviction: Jonathan Edwards and the Rhetoric of Conversion

by Stephen R. Yarbrough and John C. Adams

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313275823
• ISBN13: 9780313275821
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"