Jonathan Edwards

Details

Instance of

human

Born

5 October 1703, 1703

Died

22 March 1758, 1758

Place of birth

East Windsor

Place of death

Princeton

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Jonathan

Family name

Edwards

Father

Timothy Edwards

Mother

Esther Stoddard

Spouse

Sarah Edwards

Child

Esther Edwards Burr, Pierpont Edwards, Jonathan Edwards, Timothy Edwards Sr., Eunice Edwards, Susannah Edwards, Mary Edwards, Sarah (Edwards) Parsons, Lucy (Edwards) Woodbridge

Movement

First Great Awakening

Occupation

theologian, writer, Christian minister, aesthetician, missionary

Citizenship

British America

Religion

Reformed Christianity, Congregationalism in the United States

archives at

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

cause of death

smallpox

described by source

The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Annals of the American Pulpit, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1950–1958), History of Missiology

educated at

Yale University

employer

Yale University, Princeton University

influenced by

Isaac Newton, John Locke, Nicolas Malebranche, Cambridge Platonists

languages spoken, written or signed

English

manner of death

natural causes

name in native language

Jonathan Edwards

notable work

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Religious Affections, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton

place of burial

Princeton Cemetery

relative

Drew Gilpin Faust

replaced by

Jacob Green

social classification

slave owner

time period

colonial history of the United States

writing language

English

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