Edwardsianism
English
editEtymology
editFrom Edwardsian + -ism.
Noun
editEdwardsianism (uncountable)
- (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.