By many estimates, he was the most acute early American philosopher and the most brilliant of all American theologians. At least three of his many works – Religious Affections, Freedom of the Will, and The Nature of True Virtue – stand as masterpieces in the larger history of Christian literature. …

He oversaw an amazing local revival (The First Great Awakening), which became a prototype for one of America’s most influential religious practices….

He delivered what became America’s most famous sermon, 《落在忿怒之神手中的罪人》Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God….

For seven years Edwards served as a missionary to Indians in a dangerous frontier village. At his death, at age fifty-four, he was the president of the College of New Jersey at Princeton.

Edwards was loyal to the theology inherited from the 17^th century Puritans and their continental "Reformed", or Calvinistic, counterparts and he was pivotal in the emergence of international evangelicalism in the 18^th century.

The central priniciple in Edward’s thought, true to his Calvinistic heritage, was the sovereignty of God. The triune eternally loving God, as revealed in Scripture, created and ruled everything in the universe. … The central practical motive in his life and work was his conviction that nothing was more momentous personally than one’s eternal relationship to God.