Jonathan Edwards, one of Northampton’s most famous residents, was a revolutionary preacher whose legacy has endured through centuries. He was the first minister in Northampton to baptize African ...

Jonathan Edwards was a pastor in Northampton who was a key figure in the First Great Awakening, a religious revival that swept the early American colonies. His most famous sermon was “Sinners in ...

You may recognize these lines from Jonathan Edwards’ imprecatory sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” I first read it as an assignment for an American Literature class in high ...

JONATHAN EDWARDS (348 pp ... Driven to despair by Edwards’ sermons, Joseph Hawley, Edwards’ uncle by marriage, cut his throat. Hawley’s suicide started a reaction, and by the end of ...