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Jonathan Edwards

1703 - 1758

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Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. A leading figure of the American Enlightenment, Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards' theological work is broad in scope but rooted in the paedobaptist (baptism of infants) Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonathan Edwards has received more than 136,293 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 34 in 2019). Jonathan Edwards is the 646th most popular philosopher (down from 538th in 2019), the 2,222nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,881st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jonathan Edwards ranks 646 out of 1,267. Before him are Maximus Planudes, Pierre Charron, Barlaam of Seminara, Gaius Marius Victorinus, Friedrich Albert Lange, and Bharadwaja. After him are Mary Parker Follett, Ernst Moritz Arndt, María Zambrano, Johannes Bugenhagen, Eduard Zeller, and Michael Walzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Jonathan Edwards ranks 7. Before him are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Marie Leszczyńska, François Boucher, John Wesley, Louis, Duke of Orléans, and Shah Waliullah Dehlawi. After him are Anton Wilhelm Amo, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Aleksei Chirikov, and Vasily Trediakovsky. Among people deceased in 1758, Jonathan Edwards ranks 8. Before him are Barbara of Portugal, Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Pierre Bouguer, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Hans Egede, and Senesino. After him are Johann Friedrich Fasch, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Antoine de Jussieu, Johan Helmich Roman, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, and Lorenz Heister.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jonathan Edwards ranks 2,222 out of 20,380. Before him are Curtis LeMay (1906), Kate Capshaw (1953), Patrick Duffy (1949), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Stockard Channing (1944), and Lloyd Shapley (1923). After him are Glenn Frey (1948), Fredric March (1897), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Carly Simon (1945), Martin Kove (1946), and George Floyd (1973).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Jonathan Edwards ranks 22. Before him are Kenneth Waltz (1924), Tom Regan (1938), Arthur Danto (1924), Charles W. Morris (1903), Nancy Fraser (1947), and Reinhold Niebuhr (1892). After him are Mary Parker Follett (1868), Michael Walzer (1935), Alvin Plantinga (1932), Jerry Fodor (1935), James Mark Baldwin (1861), and William Heard Kilpatrick (1871).

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