Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a Congregationalist pastor, revivalist, and theologian who shaped colonial American religion. Raised in East Windsor, Connecticut, he studied at Yale before serving a brief New York pastorate and then joining his grandfather Solomon Stoddard's church in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he became a leading voice of the Great Awakening. Dismissed by his congregation in 1750, he spent approximately six years as a missionary to the Stockbridge Mahican community, producing his most enduring philosophical and theological works. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, weeks after becoming president of the College of New Jersey.