1844 JOHN NEVIN. The Anxious Bench. A Critique of Charles G. Finney, Emotionalism, and the "New Methods." Jonathan Edwards July 1814 through March 1815

July 1814 through March 1815

Edmund Calamy [1600-1666] was of the more moderate members of the Westminster Assembly of Divines on this subject

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A New Edition with Illustrative Notes and a Life of the Author

To find an unpublished document by Timothy Edwards directly related to this important theological conversation of the era is really a delight

1844 JOHN NEVIN. The Anxious Bench. A Critique of Charles G. Finney, Emotionalism, and the "New Methods." Jonathan Edwards July 1814 through March 1815Very rare second enlarged edition of Nevin's historically important critique of the Second Great Awakening's "New Methods," focusing on emotional response, altar calls, the anxious bench, etc., which had begun to seed in the ministry of George Whitefield, but found full bloom in the revivalist meetings of Charles G. Finney, Jedidiah Burchard, and others. Finney and Burchard, by name, are specifically the targets of the present work. Nevin, John W. A