Edwardsianism

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Edwardsian +‎ -ism

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Edwardsianism (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity, historical) A school of theology that grew up among the Congregationalists of New England, originating in the year 1732, when Jonathan Edwards began his constructive theological work, culminating a little before the American Civil War, declining afterwards, and rapidly disappearing after the year 1880.