Links to Online Resources
The Emergence of American Evangelicalism: The Great Awakening
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html
Generously illustrated with artifacts and documents from the Library of Congress, this overview of the major evangelical preachers and sects is very accessible to secondary level students.� Part three of the section "Religion in Eighteenth-Century America" in the Library's outstanding online exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic.
The Great Awakening
http://www.wfu.edu:/~matthetl/perspectives/four.html
Highly readable lecture from Dr. Terry Matthews for his course "Religious Life in the United States" at Wake Forest University (NC).
Jonathan Edwards.com
�http://www.JonathanEdwards.com/
An extensive Jonathan Edwards site with probably the largest,
best annotated, and most accessible collections of Edwards's
writings on the Web--35 sermons, six theological treatises, eight
works on natural philosophy, five pieces of Edwards's personal
writings, and more.� Includes articles on Edwards, a timeline of
Edwards's life, a lengthy bibliography, web links . . . and homepage
background music.� Created and maintained by Mark Trigsted, a
member of the Bible Community Chapel of Richardson, Texas.
Sermons of George Whitefield
�http://www.ccel.org/ccel/whitefield/sermons.toc.html
Complete text of 59 sermons, from Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Calvin College).
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