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=Jonathan Edwards= Theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, simulator of the religious revival known as the “Great Awakening,” and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion in the 19th century.

Basic Information
Jonathan Edwards was born on October 5th, 1703 East Windsor Connecticut U.S.A theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism. Edwards’s father, Timothy, was pastor of the church at East Windsor Connecticut, and his mother, Esther, was a daughter of Solomon Stoddard, pastor of the church at Northampton, Massachusetts. Edwards was raised in a setting that emphasized the reality of “awakenings.” In the earliest correspondence we have from Edwards—a brief letter he wrote in 1716 at age twelve—he describes recent events in the church of Timothy Edwards, his father:

Early Education
Edwards entered the Collegiate School, later Yale University at the young age of 13 in 1716 and on 20th September 1723 Edwards graduated from Yale University.

Conversion Experience
During the summer of 1721, when Edwards was seventeen years old studying toward his M.A degree at Yale College, a religious conversion shook the entire life of the young man and radically reshaped his experience and existence. As he described his existential and spiritual condition after the moment of conversion, the appearance of everything was altered; there seemed to be, as it were a calm, sweet, cast or appearance of divine glory in almost everything Edwards regarded his conversion experience as of monumental and life-changing.