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American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)

Jonathan Edwards [Jonathan Edwards]

(1703–58) a US ↑clergyman whose powerful ↑sermons (= religious talks) on the power of God helped to create a major religious movement, called the Great Awakening, in ↑New England (1734–5). Edwards became President of the College of New Jersey (now ↑Princeton University) in 1757.