Edwards, Jonathan

American theologian and philosopher (1703-1758).   Edwards, a Congregationalist minister, was one of the central figures of the mid-eighteenth-century religious revival in New England known as the ‘Great Awakening’.   His Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746) was one of his most important religious works.  He also wrote on philosophical topics, including The Freedom of the Will (1754).

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