Jonathan Edwards 1703 - 1758
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BACKGROUND
Reared in a devout Puritan family in Connecticut
By age 12, he had learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew
By age 17, he was graduated from college and went on to earn a masters degree in theology
CAREER
Promoting a return to simplicity and orthodoxy, Edwards became one the the leaders of the Great Awakening, a religious revival that swept the colonies in the 1730s and '40s
Wrote sermons, books, and essays (most which use logic and reason--not the highly emotional "fire and brimstone" of his most famous work "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God")
President of College of New Jersey (which later became Princeton University)
WORKS
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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QUOTE
"That God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you . . ."
SIGNIFICANCE
His powerful, persuasive, and memorable imagery
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