The Great Awakening

264.993 - 290.85 Nathan W. Bingham

Now, we're going to talk in the next lecture primarily about Jonathan Edwards, but here it's appropriate just to say that Edwards was a rather young minister in Northampton. He had gone to Northampton to be the assistant minister to his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, who had been a strong supporter of the halfway covenant and the idea of the Lord's Supper as a converting ordinance.