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EDWARDS] the younger (1745-1801), second son of i Besides the younger Jonathan many of Edwards's descendants the philosopher, See also:born at See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 26th of May 1745, also takes an important See also:place among his followers . He lived in See also:Stockbridge in 1751–1755 and spoke the See also:language of the Housatonic See also:Indians with ease, for six months studied among the Oneidas, graduated at See also:Princeton in 1765, studied See also:theology at See also:Bethlehem,See also:Connecticut, under See also:Joseph See also:Bellamy,was licensed to preach in 1766, was a See also:tutor at Princeton in 1766–1769, and was pastor of the See also:White Haven See also:Church, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1769–1795, being then dismissed for the nominal See also:reason that the church could not support him, but actually because of his opposition to the See also:Half-Way See also:Covenant as well as to See also:slavery and the slave See also:trade . He preached at Colebrook, Connecticut, in 1796–1799 and then became See also:president of See also:Union See also:College, See also:Schenectady, New See also:York, where he died on the 1st of See also:August 18o1 . His studies of the See also:Indian dialects were scholarly and valuable . He edited his See also:father's incomplete See also:History of the See also:Work of Redemption, wrote in See also:answer to See also:Stephen See also:West, A Dissertation Concerning See also:Liberty and See also:Necessity (1797), which defended his father's work on the Will by a rather strained See also:interpretation, and in answer to See also:Chauncy on universal salvation formulated what is known as the " Edwardean," New See also:England or Governmental theory of the See also:atonement in The Necessity of the Atonement and its Consistency with See also:Free See also:Grace in Forgiveness (1785) . His collected See also:works were edited by his See also:grandson See also:Tryon Edwards in two volumes, with memoir (See also:Andover, 1842) . His place in the Edwardean theology is principally due to his See also:defence against the Universalists of his father's See also:doctrine of the atonement, namely, that See also:Christ's See also:death, being the See also:equivalent of the eternal See also:punishment of sinners, upheld the authority of the divine See also:law, but did not pay any See also:debt, and made the See also:pardon of all men a possibility with See also:God, but not a necessity . For estimates of Edwards consult : The See also:Volume of the Edwards See also:Family See also:Meeting at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, See also:September 6-7, A.D . 1870 (See also:Boston, 1871); Jonathan Edwards, a Retrospect, Being the Addresses Delivered in Connecticut with the Unveiling of a Memorial were See also:great, brilliant or versatile men . Among them were: his son See also:Pierrepont (1750-1826), a brilliant but erratic member of the Connecticut See also:bar, tolerant in religious matters and bitterly hated by stern Calvinists, a See also:man whose See also:personal morality resembled greatly that of See also:Aaron See also:Burr; his grandsons . See also:William Edwards (1770-1851), an inventor of important See also:leather See also:rolling machinery; Aaron Burr the son of See also:Esther Edwards; See also:Timothy See also:Dwight (1752–1817), son of See also:Mary Edwards, and his See also:brother See also:Theodore Dwight, a Federalist politician, a member, the secretary and the historian of the See also:Hartford See also:Convention; his great-grandsons, Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) and Sereno Edwards Dwight, theologian, educationalist and author; and his great-great-grandsons, Theodore William Dwight, the jurist, and Timothy Dwight, second of that name to be president of Yale . in the First Church of Christ in Northampton, Massachusetts, on the One See also:Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of his Dismissal from the Pastorate of that Church, edited by H .

N . See also:

Gardiner (Boston, 1901) ; Exercises Commemorating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the See also:Birth of Jonathan Edwards, held at Andover Theological See also:Seminary . See also:October 4-5, 1603 (Andover, 1904) ; and among the addresses de-livered at Stockbridge in October 1903, See also:John De Witt, " Jonathan Edwards: A Study," in the Princeton Theological See also:Review (See also:January, 1904) . Also H . C . See also:King, " Edwards as Philosopher and Theologian," in Hartford Theological Seminary See also:Record, vol. xiv . (1903), pp . 23-57; H . N . Gardiner, " The See also:Early See also:Idealism of Jonathan Edwards," in the Philosophical Review, vol. ix . (1900), pp . 573-596 E .

C . See also:

Smyth, See also:American See also:Journal of Theology, vol. i . (1897), pp . 960-964; See also:Samuel P . See also:Hayes, " An See also:Historical Study of the Edwardean Revivals," in American Journal of See also:Psychology, vol. xiii . (1902), pp . 550 ff . ; J . H . MacCracken, " Philosophical Idealism of Edwards " in Philosophical Review, vol. xi . (1902), pp . 26-42, suggesting that Edwards did not know See also:Berkeley, but See also:Collier, and the same author's Jonathan Edwards' Idealismus (See also:Halle, 1899) ; F .

J . E . See also:

Woodbridge, " Jonathan Edwards," in Philosophical Review, vol. xiii . (1904) pp . 393-408 ; W . H . Squires, Jonathan Edwards and See also:seine Willenslehre (See also:Leipzig, 1901); Samuel See also:Simpson, " Jonathan Edwards, A Historical Review," in Hartford Seminary Record, vol. xiv . (1903), pp . 3-22 ; and The Edwardean, a Quarterly Devoted to the History of Thought in See also:America (See also:Clinton, New York, 1903-1904), edited by W . H . Squires, of which only four parts appeared, all devoted to Edwards and all written by Squires . (H .

N . G.; R .

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