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  • A Biography of Jonathan Edwards.

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    A Biography of Jonathan Edwards

  • A Biography of Jonathan Edwards By: joycewong (jw)

  • Early life ( – ) • Born in Connecticut in to prominent Congregational ministers • Grandfather was Solomon Stoddard, most powerful New England clergyman • Enrolled in Yale at age 13, graduated at 17 as head of his class • Strongly Influenced by Locke, Malebranche, and the Cambridge Platonists; redefined Calvinism by synthesizing their ideas with Newton • Locke – focused on empiricism, human limitation, opposition to authoritarianism, separation of Church and State, etc. • Malebranche – doctrines conclude that “we see bodies through ideas in God” and “God is the only real cause” • Cambridge Platonists – similar to Humanists of the Renaissance, but also interested in the Scientific Revolution • Served in congregations in New York and Connecticut • Completed Masters of Arts degree at Yale More(a Cambridge Platonist) Locke Newton Malebranche

  • Life as a pastor( – ) • Succeeded grandfather at the church in Northampton (most influential church outside of Boston) and received tenure • Married Sarah Pierpont and raised 11 children in Northampton • – First Great Awakening • Became famous as a revivalist preacher, emphasizing “the sovereignty of God, the depravity of humankind, the reality of h

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    Jonathan Edwards

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  • Born in Connecticut • The only son in a family of 11 children • Was educated • At a young age proficient in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew • Studied religion • Concerned about his own salvation and state of grace

  • Attended Yale at 13 • Gifted in math, philosophy, astronomy • Interested in John Locke • Knowledge comes from experience – understanding and feeling different • Edwards – reading fire and being burned

  • Married Sarah Pierrepont • They had 11 children • Launched a career in ministry • Father and grandfather were Puritan ministers

  • Became pastor at a church in Northampton, Massachusetts after his grandfather’s death • There for 24 years • Developed a reputation as a powerful preacher • Sermons were about sin and salvation

  • Was part of the Great Awakening • Began in Northampton in ’s • Reviving Puritan ideals • People denouncing their sins and dedicating themselves to God – born again to be saved • Conversions – very emotional

  • Sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” • Delivered in Enfield, Connecticut, • Trying to “awaken” natural men who had not been “born again” • Encouraged listeners to reexamine beliefs about grace, salvation, and religion • Listeners actually swooned and shrieked

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