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Jonathan Edwards

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Jonathan Edwards: Overview

Critic: Lois Gordon
Source: Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd ed., edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, 1994
Criticism about: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Genre(s): Autobiographies; Religious works; Sermons; Essays




Jonathan Edwards is legendary in American history and letters not just as a Calvinist minister of fire and brimstone but, more importantly, as a revolutionary thinker who incorporated contemporary psychological and scientific ideas into his discourses on the human mind, natural science, and religion. A man who epitomized the mystical and practical (the evangelical and Puritan) tendencies of his time, Edwards was instrumental in the mid-18th-century revival of American Calvinism known as the Great Awakening. Edwards strove to destroy the increasingly popular Arminianist propositions which rejected the doctrines of predestination and the enslavement of the will. Arminianism asse...

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