Jonathan Edwards: protagonista e crítico do fenômeno religioso conhecido como o “Grande avivamento do século 18”

• Autor(a) principal: Arantes, Paulo Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25740
• topic: Jonathan Edwards; religião; protestantismo; grande avivamento; desper-tamento; fenômeno religioso; América colonial; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

This research deals with the role of protagonist and critic of the Great Awakening pla-yed by Jonathan Edwards; looking to expose their arguments and actions in defense of this religious phenomenon within Protestant Christianity and present their critical and balanced position between the “Old Lights” and the “New Lights”; within the historical, social, politi-cal and religious context of Colonial America in the first half of the 18th century. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), a reformed, Protestant and Puritan Christian exercised his ministry as a pastor in the Church of Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. There, he has emphasized the Witness-occurrence within Protestant Christianity, the religious phenomenon known as the Great Awakening of the Century 18. Edwards, however, was not only an eyewitness of this phenomenon, he became one of his most famous protagonists and its keenest critics. As a pro-tagonist, he achieved international fame as a revivalist and “theologian of heart” after publis-hing A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (1737), which describes the spiritual revival, occurred in his church. This work served as an empirical model for the American and British revivalists. As a critic, Edwards became a brilliant apologist writing The Distin-guishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God (1741), Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival (1742) and A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746). In these works, he sought to isolate the signs of true Christian sanctity of false religious faith. He built an intel-lectual structure of revivalism, these pioneering works, which inaugurated a new psychology and philosophy of the affections.