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  1. Oct 1, 2024 · Jonathan Edwards (born October 5, 1703, East Windsor, Connecticut [U.S.]—died March 22, 1758, Princeton, New Jersey) was the greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, stimulator of the religious revival known as the “ Great Awakening,” and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion in ...

  2. Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey in Princeton. [7] Biography. Early life.

  3. Aug 22, 2014 · Thirty-seven days later Jonathan Edwards was dead from the shot. Actually it was not a shot. The accepted procedure involved rubbing matter removed from a pustule into a small incision made between the thumb and index finger.

  4. Aug 9, 2019 · Known For: One of America’s greatest theologians, intellectual leader and revival preacher of the 18th-century Great Awakening, and pioneer in the Reformed Church. Parents: Rev. Timothy and Esther Edwards. Born: October 5, 1703, East Windsor, Connecticut. Died: March 22, 1758, Princeton, New Jersey.

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  5. Mar 22, 2013 · Today in 1758 Jonathan Edwards died. He was 54 years old. It was a fever he had contracted from a small-pox inoculation just a month before. After weeks of worsening weakness and the recognition of his immanent death, he spoke…

  6. Jan 15, 2002 · 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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  8. Aug 8, 2008 · But soon after his arrival, Edwards died of the new smallpox vaccination. He was 55. He left no small legacy: Edwards is considered (some would say with Reinhold Niebuhr) America's greatest...