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Facts

Date c. 1720 - c. 1750
Location United States
Context Calvinism • American colonies

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George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards's A Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls
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Samuel Davies
American minister
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Gilbert Tennent
American Presbyterian clergyman
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
George Whitefield
George Whitefield
British clergyman