One of the greatest American theologians was Jonathan Edwards, famous for his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.  He was a pastor in New England and led, together with George Whitefield, the Great Awakening of the early 1700s.  He attended Yale at 13 years of age, graduated by age 17, and ended his career as the President of Princeton University.

He combined religious intensity with intellectual rigor and moral earnestness.  He contributed intellectually and theologically to the budding American evangelicalism that was then being defined.  Even today, he is still considered one of the greatest American theologians of all time. 

And yet…