Jonathan Edwards (1703-58)

Major works

•          “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

•          A Treatise on Religious Affections

Importance

•          Massachusetts Congregational minister

•          Theologian of the first Great Awakening

•          Often recognized as greatest evangelical American theologian

•          Stressed sovereignty of God

•          Promoter of Calvinism

•          Wrote about affections

•          Was a postmillennialist—believed millennium was ushered in with the Great Awakening

•          Believed in a future for national Israel