Theodore J. Frelinghuysen

American theologian

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Great Awakening

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    In United States: From a city on a hill to the Great Awakening

    …in the middle colonies, where Theodore J. Frelinghuysen, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, began preaching in the 1720s. In New England in the early 1730s, men such as Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the most learned theologian of the 18th century, were responsible for a reawakening of religious fervor. By…

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