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Uh, this guy is teaching veiled Gnosticism in his sermons and flirting with Anti-Semitism in his private letters.
Why should we venerate him, again?
— Dec 11, 2020 08:03AM
Why should we venerate him, again?
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Sam
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On chapter 8.
The writing style loosened up a bit. Puzzling editorial decisions still abound. Endless blockquotes adulating Davies and his positions, but very little of the same when examining his human interactions while courting his wife, or with his opponents?
Who is this man? What makes him tick? Why should we care?
— Nov 25, 2020 02:31PM
The writing style loosened up a bit. Puzzling editorial decisions still abound. Endless blockquotes adulating Davies and his positions, but very little of the same when examining his human interactions while courting his wife, or with his opponents?
Who is this man? What makes him tick? Why should we care?
Sam
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Five chapters in. My father's perplexing affinity for passive-voice sentence structure makes this a much drier read than any volume covering the Great Awakening deserves to be.
— Nov 22, 2020 02:02PM
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Well, this is going to be an experience. I've put it off for long enough, though. Here goes.
— Nov 15, 2020 09:05AM
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Dec 11, 2020 08:05AM
Also, I had NO IDEA that Aaron Burr's grandfather was Jonathan Edwards. "My grandfather was a fire-and-brimstone preacher", indeed.
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