Jonathan Edwards 1638/9-1712
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===Jonathan EDWARDS 1638/9-1712
Biographical Note
Born in Wrexham, Denbighshire. BA Christ Church, Oxford 1659, MA and fellow of Jesus College 1662, BD 1670, DD 1686. He remained a fellow of Jesus, teaching and holding various offices there, and was elected Master in 1686. Rector of Kidlington, Oxfordshire 1666, of Hinton Ampner, Hampshire 1681; he also had livings in Wales. Vice-chancellor of Oxford 1689-92.
Edwards was a committed high church Anglican, opposed to nonconformity. He contributed to theological controversy in the 1690s with a series of publications upholding established orthodoxy on the doctrine of the Trinity (A preservative against Socinianism, issued in four parts 1693-1703, Remarks upon … William Sherlock, 1695).