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Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian . A leading figure of the American Enlightenment, Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians.
Jun 2, 2024 · Jonathan Edwards, greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, stimulator of the religious revival known as the ‘Great Awakening,’ and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion in the 19th century.
Sep 1, 2004 · In the nineteenth century, theologians and church leaders all vied for the claim to carry Edwards’s mantle, asserting to be his true heir. In the twentieth and now the twenty-first century, scholars, clergy, and laity all continue to look to the New England divine for ideas and inspiration.
- He came from a large family with a pastoral heritage. Born October 5, 1703, in East Windsor, Connecticut, Edwards grew up in a family dedicated to the purposes of God in an early American context.
- His own conversion and work of sanctification came through much struggle. As a youth, Edwards struggled with the Calvinistic understanding of the sovereignty of God.
- He pastored his first church when he was 18 years old. As a recent graduate of Yale, Edwards ministered to a Presbyterian church in New York for eight months.
- He thought highly of his wife, even at a young age. Jonathan and Sarah met in 1723 in New Haven, Connecticut, when Edwards was twenty years old, a graduate student and tutor at Yale.
Jan 15, 2002 · Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian. His work as a whole is an expression of two themes — the absolute sovereignty of God and the beauty of God's holiness.
He left no small legacy: Edwards is considered (some would say with Reinhold Niebuhr) America's greatest theologian.
Oct 11, 2003 · Jonathan Edwards had come to the conclusion that that was a dangerous liberty, that those who come to the Lord’s Table should be converted people and they should at least profess saving faith in Christ.
