He was a student minister, not a visiting pastor, his rule being thirteen hours of study a day. In 1727 he was ordained minister at Northampton and assistant to his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. Edwards later recognized this as his conversion to Christ. From that point on, Edwards delighted in the sovereignty of God. However, in 1721 he came to what he called a "delightful conviction" though meditation on 1 Timothy 1:17. As a youth, Edwards was unable to accept the Calvinist sovereignty of God. He received his Masters three years later. The only son in a family of eleven children, he entered Yale in September, 1716 when he was not yet thirteen and graduated four years later (1720) as valedictorian. Jonathan Edwards was the most eminent American philosopher-theologian of his time, and a key figure in what has come to be called the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database named Jonathan Edwards.
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