In the twentieth century, conservative Protestantism got a new start in California as hundreds of thousands of Americans from Oklahoma, Texas, and surrounding states settled there beginning in the 1930s and 1940s. Darren Dochuk’s From Bible Belt to Sunbelt has well demonstrated the significant role that Southern California played in the advancement of evangelical Christianity … Read more
This paper is concerned with showing the biblical, pedagogical principles Jonathan Edwards was instructed in and utilized in advancing theology through sermons in light of his perception of his audience’s biblical literacy, as evidenced by the format and delivery of his sermons that changed due to the transition in the audience of his sermons (from … Read more
How does the angelology of Jonathan Edwards relate to his Reformed forebears? For many contemporary theologians and church historians, Edwards is an aberration from the Reformed tradition. Others counter that he was no aberration, but rather was simply trying to take what the Reformed were doing and articulate that vision in a new context. The … Read more