The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New-Jersey: Together With Extracts ... Select Sermons on Various Important Subjects

by Samuel Hopkins

Excerpt from The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New-Jersey: Together With Extracts From His Private Writings and Diary; And Also Seventeen Select Sermons on Various Important Subjects


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390 pages, Hardcover

First published June 24, 2010

About the author

Samuel Hopkins was an American Congregationalist, theologian of the late colonial era of the United States, and from whom the Hopkinsian theology takes its name.

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the place to start if you’re looking for a biography of Edwards (go to Marsden or Murray for that) but there is valuable source information packaged into this neat little volume. Namely, an explanation and letter exchange regarding his ouster from Northhampton, his own attempt to scuttle his call to New Jersey College, and deeply impressive accounts of his wife as well as daughter, Esther Burr (married to Aaron Burr Sr, parents to Aaron Burr Jr—yes, that Aaron Burr).