Lecture Notes Outline
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Nonconformists in England
- Origins of the Congregationalists & Baptists
- Persecution of Nonconformity
- Isaac Watts & the rise of English hymnody
- Rise of evangelicalism
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The Evangelical Revival & the Great
Awakening
- Jonathan Edwards
- John Wesley (Arminian)
- George Whitefield (Calvinist)
- Isaac Backus & Francis Asbury
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Challenges of the Enlightenment
- Unitarianism
- Deism
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English Protestant missions & activism
- David Brainerd & the Native Americans
- William Carey & world missions
- William Wilberforce & the abolition of slavery