Michał Choiński’s book was published in 2016 in New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies published by Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Press
Michał Choiński’s book Rhetoric of the Revival was published in 2016 in New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies published by Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Press. In his study, Choiński explores the language of the key preachers of the “Great Awakening” of the mid-eighteenth century, and seeks to explain the impact their sermons exerted upon colonial American audiences. The revival of the 1739–43 is recognized as an important event in American colonial history, formative for the shaping of the culture of New England and beyond. Choiński highlights how a variety of inventive rhetorical mechanisms employed by these ministers evolved into what came to be called the "rhetoric of the revival," became commonplace for American revivalism, and remained fundamental for the persuasive power of Great Awakening preaching and the communicative success of the "New Light" ministers.
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