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Unlike his father, who was a slave-owner, Jonathan Edwards the younger supported abolition of the slave trade and of slavery. His anti-slavery viewpoint was first evidenced in 1773, when he wrote a series of articles entitled “Some Observations upon the Slavery of Negroes” in the Connecticut Journal and the New-Haven Post-Boy (Gamertsfelder, p. 137).
- 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.
Jun 2, 2024 · Jonathan Edwards (born October 5, 1703, East Windsor, Connecticut [U.S.]—died March 22, 1758, Princeton, New Jersey) was the 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 ...
Sep 25, 2020 · Jonathan Edwards the Younger, 1745-1801 : a colonial pastor by Ferm, Robert L. Publication date 1976 Topics Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801 Publisher Grand Rapids, MI ...
Sep 1, 2004 · During his brief tenure (1724-1726), the young Edwards largely held Yale together and brought it through these troublesome times. His academic career, however, came to an end when he received a call to serve as the assistant minister to the aging Solomon Stoddard, Edwards’s maternal grandfather, at Northampton, Massachusetts.
After his dismissal Edwards served as a missionary to the Indians at Stockbridge in western Massachusetts. In 1757 he became president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He died in Princeton in 1758. Jonathan Edwards the Younger, the ninth of the 12 children of Jonathan Edwards, was born in 1745.
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Besides being a moving force in the Great Awakening, Edwards was a relentless speculative scientist, an acute psychologist, a world famous theologian and philosopher. Edwards first came to Northampton in 1726 to assist his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, in his ministry. When Stoddard died in 1729, the young, but brilliant, Jonathan Edwards took ...
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