THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Jonathan Edwards became the president of what University before his death
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Harvard
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Princeton
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dame school
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Princeton president with the shortest tenure was also one of the most famous in the school’s history. Theologian Jonathan Edwards served as president of what was then the College of New Jersey for only 35 days in 1758 before succumbing to smallpox.
Detailed explanation-2: -The institution’s first president was Jonathan Dickinson in 1747, and its 20th and current is Christopher Eisgruber, who was elected in 2013.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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