 Jonathan
Edwards
The Jonathan Edwards Library celebrates
the 300th birthday of its namesake.
Jonathan Edwards was a seminal force
in Early American religious history. Edwards was a forceful preacher,
prolific writer and controversial theologian, who earnestly believed
that America's destiny was divinely ordained.
Yet living at the brink of the Age
of Entlightenment, Edwards was able to successfully marry the philosophy
of Locke and the dynamic universe of Newton with the Puritan experience
of supernatural grace and spiritual redemption. He was one of the
leading figures in the Great Awakening, a religious revival that
strongly impacted colonial society during the mid-eighteenth century.
Born in Windsor, CT on October 5,
1703, he spent many years in Massachusetts, preaching for twenty
years in Northampton and later, worked for eight years as a missionary
to the Native American population of Stockbridge. Edwards eventually
became President of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.
General Sites
A
Jonathan Edwards Chronology
http://www.yale.edu/wje/html/chronology.html
A thorough online chronology maintained by Yale University. "This
chronology of Edwards's undated writings is based on that established
by Thomas A. Schafer, Wallace E. Anderson, and Wilson H. Kimnach,
supplemented by volume introductions in The Works of Jonathan Edwards
, by primary sources dating from Edwards' lifetime, and by secondary
materials such as biographies. "
Jonathan
Edwards
http://www.ccel.org/e/edwards/edwards.html
This brief biographical essay includes links to two full text texts
by Edwards, Treatise on Grace and Treatise Concerning
Religous Affections.
Jonathan
Edwards on the Great Awakening
http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/awaken.htm
"An account of the second wave of the Great Awakening in Northampton,
Massachusetts, is given in the following letter of December 12,
1743, addressed by Jonathan Edwards to the Reverend Thomas Prince
in Boston."
The Life of Jonathan Edwards
http://www.yale.edu/wje/html/life_of__edwards.html
Brief but complete biography of this important albeit controversial
18th century minister, former Stockbridge resident and catalyst
of the Great Awakening movement. This site is maintained at Yale
University.
Perspectives
in American Literature -
Jonathan Edwards
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/edwards.html
An excellent, unbiased assessment of the life and work of Jonathan
Edwards, created by Paul Reuben, Ph.D.
Professor of English, California State University Stanislaus.
The Sermons
of Jonathan Edwards
http://www.jonathanedwards.com/sermons.htm
Many full text sermons of Jonathan Edwards, most given at Northampton,
are included here but beware - This site is not unbiased, and while
it is a .com, it is also affiliated with the Dallas Seminary.
Essays on Jonathan Edwards
The
Anachronism of Jonathan Edwards, by H. Richard Niebuhr
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=177
Niebuhr taught at Yale University Divinity School, and was "one
of mid-century's most respected teachers and writers" on theological
issues. "The following article was adapted from an address
he delivered in Northampton, Massachussets, on March 9, 1958, to
commemorate the bicentennial of the death of Jonathan Edwards. It
was excerpted from Theology, History and Culture: Major Unpublished
Writings, by H. Richard Niebuhr, edited by William Stacy Johnson,
with a foreword by Richard R. Niebuhr, published by Yale University
Press in 1996".
An
Appraisal of the Great Awakening
This is a paper that Martin Luther King wrote for American Christianity
(Colonial Period), taught by Raymond J. Bean at Crozer Theological
Seminary. From the King Archives.
The
First Great Awakening http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/grawaken
A brief essay on the First Great Awakening by Christine Leigh Heyrman
Department of History, University of Delaware.
The
Great Awakening: Lecture
http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/four.html
Essay on the Great Awakening by Terry Matthews, Adjunct Professor
at Wake Forest University.
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