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Jonathan Edwards - College Term Paper

Jonathan Edwards

Alyson Woolston
Known as the first major philosopher in the American colonies,
is remembered today principally as the author of many
great sermons. Born in 1703, eighty years after the Puritans landed in New
England, Edwards stood between Puritan America and modern America. He was
said to be a brilliant, thoughtful, and complicated man.
Edwards succeeded his grandfather Solomon Stoddard. He was the
pastor of the congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Stoddard was so powerful a figure in religious affairs that he was known as
the "Pope of the Connecticut Valley." Jonathan's abilities as a speaker
were recognized in his early teens. He entered Yale when he was ...

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President of
the United States.
Edward was a strong willed pastor. His presence and brilliant
sermons helped to bring about the religious revival known as the "Great
Awakening". He drew such graphic pictures of the hell awaiting them that
the people began to frantically prepare for the conversion experience by
which they would be "born again". Edwards first published revival
narrative, Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God, described his
town awakening. Although it was written in 1736 it is still referred to
today. In 1739 these "brushfires of evangelicalism" began to spread.
Separate local revivals and new leaders began to form. It took about
fifteen years to spread throughout the Eastern Seaboard. This Great
Awakening spread from "congregation to congregation". It was so intensely
discussed that some conversations would end in mass hysteria.
During this period there was a drastic decline in the enthusiasm
for the old Puritan religion. Churches began ...

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Added: 9/18/2005 05:36:39 PM
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