1780 JONATHAN EDWARDS -Title Page
Jonathan
Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a colonial
American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native
Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most
important and original philosophical theologian"[1]. He is known as one of
the greatest and most profound of American theologians and revivalists. His
work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of
Calvinist theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan
heritage. His fire-and-brimstone sermon "Sinners in the hands of an
angry God," emphasized the just wrath of God against sin and
contrasted it with the provision of God for salvation; the intensity of his
preaching sometimes resulted in members of the audience fainting, swooning, and
other more obtrusive reactions. The swooning and other behaviors in his
audience caught him up in a controversy over "bodily effects" of the
Holy Spirit's presence.
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ITEM DESCRIPTION: Original 1780 title page as removed from a rare book.