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"The Pilgrims carried the Geneva Bible with them to the shores of America in 1620. The early settlers, bound together by the Mayflower Compact, brought the thoroughgoing form of reformation to the New World. Puritans, who fled persecution in England, were a dominant force in the early settlement in New England and Virginia. They brought the religion and world view of Calvinism to America. The founding of educational, political, and ecclesiastical institutions in the seventeenth century was stimulated by this dominant influence. Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Congregationalists were all part of the movementBy the middle of the eighteenth century the reform was in decline. New England was facing the influence of Arminianism,  Deism, and the roots of Unitarianism. At this time Jonathan Edwards lamented the shift of American culture away from its roots. The Great Awakening soon followed, flaming the dying embers of reform into a new fire, that swept through the colonies and the frontier. The Awakening was led chiefly by three preachers: Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield. Of these three Edwards and Whitefield were thoroughgoing Calvinists. Wesley was not. The Wesleyan revival made great inroads on the frontier."
R.C.Sproul |
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10/10/08 3:20 PM
