Eduardo Echeverria Sandoval

BIO on Jonathan Edwards 09/2021

Who: Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and

Congregationalist theologian.
What: stimulator of the religious revival known as the “Great Awakening,”
Where: Jonathan Edwards was from The United States.
When: Jonathan Edwards was born on October 5, 1703 and died on March 22, 1758.
Why: We are studying Jonathan Edwards because he was one of America's most important and
original philosophical theologians. Edwards' theological work is broad in scope but rooted in the
pedobaptist Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith.
Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the
first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His theological work
gave rise to a distinct school of theology known as New England theology.