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Griffin, Edward Michael was born on September 25, 1937 in Pittsburgh. Son of Edward John and Margaret Alice (Koessler) Griffin.
( Old Brick was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archiv...)
Old Brick was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Charles Chauncy was a powerful and influential figure in his own time, but in historical accounts he has always been overshadowed by his contemporaries Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards. When he is remembered today, it is usually as Edwards's chief antagonist during the Great Awakening of the 1740s. Yet Chauncy's fellow New Englanders knew that there was more to the man than that. In the course of his 60-year tenure as a pastor of Boston's First Church (the "Old Brick"), Chauncy involved himself in most of the important intellectual, religious, and political issues of the century. Not only did he aggressively oppose the emotional revivalism of the Great Awakening, but he was also a bold pamphleteer and preacher in support of the American Revolution. In theology Chauncy became, as an old man, the leading advocate probably having scandalized his own forebears, but he insisted that he was true to his Protestant tradition and never abandoned his reliance on Scripture and Puritan discipline in favor of rationalist secularism. Old Brick,the first full-scale biography of Charles Chauncy, attempts to recover not only Chauncy the spokesman for the ideas of a great many colonial Americans, but also the complex man who struggled with himself and with the events of his time to arrive at those positions. The portrait of Chauncy that emerges is fuller, more comprehensive, and more balanced than the stereotypes and partial portraits that have thus far represented him in history. This biography now makes it possible to consider Chauncy a figure worthy of study in his own right and to take a fresh look at eighteenth-century New England in light of the tradition Chauncy represents.
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Charles Chauncy (1705-1787) was minister of the First Church (Congregational) of Boston, 1727-1787, an Old-Light opponent of Jonathan Edwards and the New Light ministers of the Great Awakening, and a precursor of Unitarianism. Contents: A Boston lad - The young Harvard scholar - A 'Godly, faithful man' - After the surprising conversions - The outpouring of the Holy Spirit - Words in season - After the Great Awakening - A body of divinity - Liberty, civil and religious - Divinity, zeal, rancor and revenge - Exile and return - Pudding and pies. Frontispiece: Black-and-white portrait of Charles Chauncy, by an unknown artist. Includes index.
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Griffin, Edward Michael was born on September 25, 1937 in Pittsburgh. Son of Edward John and Margaret Alice (Koessler) Griffin.
Bachelor of Science cum laude, University San Francisco, 1959. Master of Arts, Stanford University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1966.
Assistant professor department English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1966-1969; associate professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1969-1980; professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, since 1980; chairman program in American studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1980-1988; Fulbright professor, U. Salzburg, Austria., 1983-1984.
(Charles Chauncy (1705-1787) was minister of the First Chu...)
( Old Brick was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archiv...)
Served to First lieutenant United States Army, 1959-1962. Member American Studies Association, Modern Language Association, Mid-American Studies Association.
Married Jean Marilyn Chisholm, March 5, 1960. Children– Patricia, Theresa, Joan.