Sentences with phrase «emotional conversion experiences»

The First Great Awakening was heralded by spontaneous and emotional conversion experiences, scattered throughout the colonies.

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Hundreds of working - class poor, oppressed by industrializing England and neglected by the church, were experiencing emotional conversions under his fiery preaching.

They were, however, more concerned with the emotional experience of salvation by a sudden conversion than they were with theological dogmas.

Three of them afterward described the meeting in intensely emotional terms, testifying to something like a conversion experience as Benedict listened to them one by one and spoke of sorrow, shame, and the power of repentance and forgiveness.

Ms. Cornett argues that the love affair between Almasy and Katherine «is of the very same emotional and spiritual and factual material that dramatic religious conversions are made of»» namely, a certain sequence of strong feelings, including the experience of being led to do something against your will.

The selectiveness of individual experience is moral so far as it conforms to the balance of importance disclosed in the rational vision; arid conversely the conversion of the intellectual insight into an emotional force corrects the sensitive experience in the direction of morality.

In contrast to the celebrated emotional appeals he would issue to millions later in his life, Graham would recount that his own conversion experience was pretty platonic.