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From: Carroll H Clark <>
Subject: Re: [EDWARDS-L] The Rev Jonathan EDWARDS(1703-1758):
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:44:04 -0700


This Rev. Jonathan EDWARDS is the famous minister of Puritan New
England. You will find him in a n y encyclopedia as a philosopher,
preacher, revivalist and theologian.
He was the leading intellectual figure in colonial America.
b. East Windsor, CT & he was from many forefathers who had been
Congregational ministers. At age entered Yale U at age 13 & grad age 17.
1726 he was asst't pastor
of a congregation at Northhampton, MA. The chief pastor was his
grandfather,Solomon STODDARD, on the maternal side - also a famous
Congregational pastor.
After pastor Stoddard died 1729, Jonathan EDWARDS took his place.
During the period 1730s - 1740s his sermons became a series that
inspired movements among New Englanders. These lectures were to become
known as the
Great Awakening. This momentum changed many religious practices via the
lecltures he inspired. Radicals and conservatives both attacked him for
his teachings.
Check Great Awakening; John CALVIN in encyclopedias.
Psychology of religion was Jon. EDWARDS forte' . People Behavior was
Edward's forte'.
Read more in your encycl. about Jon. Edwards' parishiners problems with
some of his congregations; et al.
Jon. Edwards 1751 - 1757 Jon. Edwards served as a missionary among the
Indian Settlement Stockbridge MA. It was there that he wrote his
Freedom of Will (1754), a philosophical writing. In this work he wrote
of p r e d e s t i n a t i o n - another look up
among the encyclopedia and other sources handling such phenomena.

If any of you EDWARDS have ties with this Rev. Jonathan EDWARDS (1703 -
1758) I would like to hear from you. He had an interesting son-in-law
who had married his daughter that you might enjoy checking out if you
are interested in history and
People.

Carroll CLARK, in Snohomish, WA 30 mi NE of Seattle


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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:15:31 -0400 "Loney T. Page"
<> writes:
> Carroll,
>
> Do you have locations and dates for The Rev Jonathan EDWARDS? My
> gr-grandfather of Muscogee Co, GA is Jonathan Taylor Edwards; son of
> Jonathen C. Edwards but I have no other information --- yet.
>
> Loney in Johnstown, NY - 50 miles nw of Albany.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carroll H Clark" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:15 PM
> Subject: [EDWARDS-L] The Rev Jonathan EDWARDS :
>
>
> > If you relate to The Rev Jonathan EDWARDS, the famous theologian
> of
> > Colonial times., I would like to hear from you.
> >
> > Carroll in Snohomish, WA 30 mi NE of Seattle
> >
>
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