USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Jonathan Edwards was the great academician and apologist of the Great Awakening. A Congregational pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts, he preached justification by faith alone with remarkable effectiveness.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His theological work gave rise to a distinct school of theology known as New England theology.

Detailed explanation-3: -The two religious preachers of the Great Awakening, George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards inspired the masses. They argued for religious authorities not having control over the ordinary people.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -A majority in many churches remained unconverted. Jonathan Edwards wrote that it was “a far more degenerate time . . . than ever before.” In the spring and summer of 1735, Jonathan Edwards was leading the Northampton awakening, which was rapidly spreading to other towns.