The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University (also known as the Jonathan Edwards Centre) is a department of the
Yale University Divinity School responsible for publishing and providing scholarly information about the works of
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), a 1720 Yale graduate, Christian theologian, and philosopher who played a significant role in America's
First Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affecte ...
in the 18th century.
The Jonathan Edwards Center contains many of Edwards' original manuscripts, acquired from his family in the early twentieth century. Besides its primary location at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
in
New Haven, Connecticut
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, the center maintains affiliated centers in Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Poland, Germany, and South Africa to assist in providing information about the works of Jonathan Edwards. Edwards was a prolific writer and the center has published twenty-six volumes (letter press) and seventy-three volumes (digital edition, online archive) of his works. The center also makes Edwards' works available on the web through an online archive.
[Ilana Seager, "Divinity School Branches Out", ''Yale Daily News'', Nov. 30, 2009]
See also
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Jonathan Edwards
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Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Congregationalist theological education was the motivation at the founding of Yale, and the professional school has ...
References
External links
Edwards Center Official Website
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