Jonathan Edwards
Alyson Woolston
Known as the first major philosopher in the American colonies,
is remembered today principally as the author of many
great sermons. Born in 1703, eighty years after the Puritans landed in New
England, Edwards stood between Puritan America and modern America. He was
said to be a brilliant, thoughtful, and complicated man.
Edwards succeeded his grandfather Solomon Stoddard. He was the
pastor of the congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Stoddard was so powerful a figure in religious affairs that he was known as
the "Pope of the Connecticut ....
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