Do You Know This Man?
This man preached what is perhaps the most famous sermon of all time. He participated in what was the most dramatic revival in American history. He is regarded as one of Colonial America's greatest minds.
He was the father of eight daughters and three sons, grandfather to seventy five grandchildren.
His theology was deeply rooted in Calvinism. His religious perspective was Puritan. His preaching style was heavy with warning and conviction. His health was often frail, limiting him physically, but affording him much time for thought and study. Do you know this man?
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That would be Jonathan Edwards perhaps?
Here is that sermon...
http://www.bibleteacher.org/jedw_2.htm
and for more info...
http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/edwards_jonathan.html
By Anonymous, at 10/20/2005 6:02 PM
Are you going to preach "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"
WOW!
Edwards was amazing. One biographer said he was the leading intellectual in all of America at that time.
He grasped the revolution that Leibniz and Newton were proposing in Calculus and Physics. These things were as revolutionary for their day as microprocessors are for ours.
His was a fully furnished mind, and he is one of my all-time top 3 people.
D
By Higher Up, Further In, at 10/21/2005 5:14 PM
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