CPTJ Archive | Volume 13 – Essays on a Theology of the Spirit
Title
“To Implore the Unction of the Holy Spirit”: Trinitarian Preaching in the Second Great Awakening (1790–1865)
obbie tyler todd
Abstract
Obbie Tyler Todd demonstrates that, contra common opinion, the evangelical preaching of the Second Great Awakening was not a-trinitarian. He shows that in an increasingly skeptical and revivalistic age, the Trinity had to be (1) preachable, (2) practical, (3) and rational, if it were to be useful for most ministers. This article will present the trinitarian consciousness of evangelicals in the early United States, particularly as it was applied from the pulpit.
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Obbie Tyler Todd (PhD, New Orleans Baptist University) is pastor of Third Baptist Church in Marion, IL, and adjunct professor of theology at Luther Rice College and Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Southern Edwardseans: The Southern Baptist Legacy of Jonathan Edwards (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022) and Let Men Be Free: Baptist Politics in the Early United States (1776–1835) (Pickwick, 2022). He is a member of the St. Hildegard Fellowship of the Center for Pastor Theologians.
