Jonathan Edwards: Doctrine

The general spiritual scene in the late eighteenth century militated against interest in the doctrine which he had preached. Calvinistic convictions waned in North America. In the progress of a decline which Edwards had rightly anticipated, those Congregational churches of New England which had embraced Arminianism after the Great Awakening gradually moved into Unitarianism and universalism, led by Charles Chauncy.

-Iain Murray, Jonathan Edwards A New Biography, p.454