Jonathan Edwards

Writer

Known as

theologian, writer, Christian minister, aesthetician

Movement

First Great Awakening

Citizenship

British America

Background

Educated at

Yale University

Influenced by

Isaac Newton, John Locke, Nicolas Malebranche, Cambridge Platonists

Buried

Princeton Cemetery

Notable works

• 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