New England
Northampton, Massachusetts, is a city in the Connecticut River Valley of New England, notable in Christian history as the home of Jonathan Edwards and a crucible of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening revival.
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Northampton, Massachusetts through the eras
Under British colonial rule and later the American republic, Northampton gained renown as the pulpit of Jonathan Edwards, whose 1734–1735 revival — a forerunner of the wider Great Awakening — drew hundreds of conversions and shaped evangelical Protestant theology across the Atlantic world.
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