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America's first superstar preacher; Jonathan Edwards made saints rejoice and sinners quake.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
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The Christian Science Monitor
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March 6, 2003
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Byline: Thomas D'Evelyn
Widely considered to be foremost among American religious thinkers, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1801) lived a life of passionate devotion. Indeed, his preaching fueled the Great Awakening, a period of spectacular revivals that ran through the Colonies during the mid 1700s, permanently changing American religious experience.
His father, Timothy, was "a formal and fastidious man who would never be seen in public without his full clerical garb....
