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Jonathan Edwards
Geburtstag: 5. Oktober 1703
Todesdatum: 22. März 1758
Andere Namen:Ionathan Edwards, جاناتان ادواردز, Ҷонатан Эдвардс, جوناثان إدواردز
Jonathan Edwards war ein amerikanischer kongregationalistischer Prediger, Missionar und eine wichtige Persönlichkeit in der Erweckungsbewegung des First Great Awakening.
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„Vertraue auf Gott und du brauchst dich nicht zu fürchten.“
— Jonathan Edwards
Letzte Worte, 22. März 1758
Original engl.: "Trust in God, and you need not fear."
„How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?“
— Jonathan Edwards, Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
„There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.“
— Jonathan Edwards
The Mind (begun in September 1723; not completed).
„One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.“
— Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings
„Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.“
— Jonathan Edwards, A careful & strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of the will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue & vice, reward & punishment, praise & blame...
