Jonathan Edwards | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Jonathan_Edwards_(Princeton_Portrait).jpg) Portrait of Edwards by Henry Augustus Loop after Joseph Badger | |
| 3rd President of Princeton University | |
| In office 1758–1758 | |
| Preceded by | Aaron Burr Sr. |
| Succeeded by | Jacob Green (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 5, 1703[1] East Windsor, Connecticut, British America |
| Died | March 22, 1758 (aged 54)[1] Princeton, New Jersey, British America |
| Spouse | [2] |
| Children | Sarah, Jerusha, Esther, Mary, Lucy, Timothy, Susannah, Eunice, Jonathan, Elizabeth, and Pierpont |
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| Alma mater | Yale College |
| Occupation | Pastor, theologian, missionary |
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Theology career | |
| Notable work | "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) Religious Affections (1746) |
| Theological work | |
| Era | Colonial period |
| Language | English |
| Tradition or movement | Evangelical Calvinist (Puritan) New England theology |
| Main interests | Revivalism |
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. Edwards' theological work is broad in scope but rooted in the paedobaptist (baptism of infants) Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical aptness, and how central the Age of Enlightenment was to his mindset.[3] Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts.[4] His work gave rise to a doctrine known as New England theology.
Edwards delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a classic of early American literature, during another revival in 1741, following George Whitefield's tour of the Thirteen Colonies.[5] Edwards is well known for his many books, such as The End for Which God Created the World and The Life of David Brainerd, which inspired thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections which many Calvinist Evangelicals still read today.[6] Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey in Princeton.[7]
- ^ a b "Jonathan Edwards: Biography". Jonathan Edwards Center. Yale University. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
- ^ Marsden 2003, pp. 93–95, 105–12, 242–49, 607.
- ^ Lee 2005, pp. 34–41.
- ^ Marsden 2003, pp. 150–63.
- ^ Marsden 2003, pp. 214–26.
- ^ Marsden 2003, p. 499.
- ^ "Jonathan Edwards at the College of New Jersey". Princeton University. Archived from the original on December 24, 2012.