JonathanEdwards


 * Jonathan Edwards**

• **Personal Life** -Born in 1703 -in East Windsor, Connecticut -Died in 1758 of a smallpox inoculation just a few weeks after taking office in the College of New Jersey

• **Professional Life ** -Attended [|Yale University] at the age of 13 - there he studied theology for two years -Graduated in 1720 - In 1757 he was appointed as president of the College of New Jersey which later became known as [|Princeton]

• **Major works** - he returned to yale university as a tutor -before then he was a pastor in New York City - In the early 1740s jEdwards helped inspire the religious revival correctly known as the Great Awakening. - the most famouse sermon that he wrote was "Sinners in theHands of God"



• **Period and/or Style** -his period was the colonial period -his style was about hell fire and brimstone



• **Favorite Themes** - he wrote about god -how we all need to repend and have a change of heart or if not you will die and go to hell