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Originally Posted by Pergamum  What is life? Is it wild emotional experiences and zealous fervency? |
Is it necessarily
not emotional and fervent? How much do we tend to fall into the modernistic fetishizing of the head that we assume
any demonstration of emotion is suspect?
It's no surprise, then, that Chauncey did end up Unitarian.
So enamored with the "Enlightened" idea of logic that he couldn't get out of his own head. Ugh.
I've studied the American Awakenings at length. All four -- Edwards', Finney's, Moody's, and (supposedly) the Fourth that we're in now. I've been skeptical of Edwards in the past, but after reading his stuff, I'm willing to take him at his word that it was real. And, in fact, I would say it's the most "real" of the four.
To dismiss the First Awakening as simply emotional agitation is to read our own present-day conflicts back into a very different world. Agnostic historians do the same thing. Yikes!
C