Edwards probably wouldn't fit in with the fire-and-brimstone folks of today's evangelistic Christianity; Edwards was very much for the practicing of the religious principles he stood by, and that was one of the causes of Edwards being booted out of his church.

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He also was a good example of what a missionary ought to be -- he didn't just preach to the Indian tribes he visited, he also stood up for their interests against the wishes of colonial governments.

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In other words, it's easy to jump to a conclusion about Edwards from reading that sermon out of the context of the rest of his life, but that conclusion might well be wrong ;)

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(though I used to feel the same way about him, but one of my professors was an Edwards scholar and spent quite a lot of time pointing out that there was more to the man than that one sermon)