AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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Wrote the Mayflower Contract
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Was a Puritan preacher and writer
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When he spoke, audiences rose to their feet and cheered
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely acknowledged to be America’s most important and original philosophical theologian. His work as a whole is an expression of two themes-the absolute sovereignty of God and the beauty of God’s holiness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Early life and ministry He was graduated in 1720 but remained at New Haven for two years, studying divinity. After a brief New York pastorate (1722–23), he received the M.A. degree in 1723; during most of 1724–26 he was a tutor at Yale. In 1727 he became his grandfather’s colleague at Northampton.
Detailed explanation-3: -Born in what is today South Windsor, Edwards became a leader of New England’s first Great Awakening. His 1741 sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, ” first heard by throngs of believers in Enfield, is considered one of the most famous and influential ever delivered in the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -On July 8, 1741, theologian Jonathan Edwards spoke the words of the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” at a Congregational church in Enfield.