Jonathan edwards biography powerpoint fourth grade

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1 Jonathan Edwards( )

2 Background Information
Important role in the shaping of The Great Awakening ( )Grandfather of Aaron Burr (3rd VP of US and killed Alexander Hamilton in a Duel)(founding father and 1st sec.

of state.)Was the fifth of eleven childrenHe entered Yale College in , at just under the age of was a scholar-pastor his rule being thirteen hours of study a day.

3 The Great Awakening A series of several religious revivals
Began in the ’s.

The Great Awakening was a backlash against what many believed was a church that had grown far too lenient.

4 Edwards preached a return to Calvinism which stressed predestination, the belief that only a select few chosen by God would be saved.

No individual could earn grace by doing good deeds, so everyone was equally powerless to control their own fate.

5 Structure and Delivery of a Puritan Sermon
1. Epigraph-reading of a Bib