Jonathan Edwards was an American theologian and metaphysician. He was born in 1703 and died in 1758. He entered Yale College in 1716, and studied until 1722, when he received a license as preacher. In 1723 he was elected a tutor in Yale College, but resigned in 1726 to be ordained as minister at Northampton, Massachusetts After more than twenty-three years of zealous service here he was dismissed by the congregation owing to the severity with which he sought to exercise churchdiscipline. He then went as a missionary among the Indians at Stockbridge, in Massachusetts. Here he composed his famous work on the Freedom of the Will, which appeared in 1754. In 1757 he was chosen president of the college at Princeton, New Jersey, but died shortly afterwards. Research Jonathan Edwards
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