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- DictionaryEdwards, Jonathan/ˈɛdwədz/
- 1. (born 1966), English athlete; full name Jonathan David Edwards. He won a gold medal in the triple jump in the 1992 World Cup and in 1995 became the first person to break the 18-metre barrier in that event.
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- 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 the 19th century.
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2 days ago · 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.
- 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.
Aug 9, 2019 · Known For: One of America’s greatest theologians, intellectual leader and revival preacher of the 18th-century Great Awakening, and pioneer in the Reformed Church. Parents: Rev. Timothy and Esther Edwards. Born: October 5, 1703, East Windsor, Connecticut. Died: March 22, 1758, Princeton, New Jersey.
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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.
Jul 3, 2019 · Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was an extremely important and influential clergyman in the New England colonial America. He has been given credit for beginning the Great Awakening and his writings provide insights into colonial thought.
Sep 1, 2004 · First, there is Edwards’s preaching of his sermon “God Glorified in the Work of Redemption” to the ministers gathered for the Harvard commencement in Boston in 1731. Edwards was not of the ranks of Harvard alumni; he had gone to Yale. He was also the successor to Stoddard.
Oct 10, 2003 · When Jonathan Edwards became still and knew that God is God, the vision before his eyes was of an absolutely sovereign God, self-sufficient in himself and all-sufficient for his creatures, infinite in holiness, and therefore perfectly glorious — that is, infinitely beautiful in all his perfections.
