Old age and religion in the writings and life of Jonathan Edwards. From: Church History | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: Minkema, Kenneth P. | COPYRIGHT 2001 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In his Faithful Narrative of a Surprising Work of God, an account of the awakening of 1734-35 in his church at Northampton, Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards excitedly reported a considerable number of old persons among the several hundred converts. "I suppose," he wrote, "there were ... more than twenty of them above fifty, and about ten of them above sixty, and two of them above seventy years of age." Edwards's evident self-satisfaction stemmed from the widespread belief that conve...

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