Hansen Hosts Edwards Tour for New England Students

Volume 22 No 1 | Winter 2008-2009

On September 20, Wayne Hansen, professor of theology (Bethel Seminary of the East), hosted a tour of the major sites in the life and ministry of Jonathan Edwards for 48 students, alumni, and friends of Bethel Seminary.

The tour began at Edwards’ birthplace in East Windsor (now South Windsor), Conn., and included the church where his father, Rev. Timothy Edwards, pastored for 60 years. The group then moved on to Enfield, Conn., where Jonathan Edwards preached his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” They then traveled to Northampton, Mass., where Edwards spent 23 years of his pastoral career, and visited the gravesites of Solomon Stoddard, Jerusha Edwards, David Brainerd, and the monuments of the Edwards family and the family of Timothy Dwight. The tour’s final segment took the group to Stockbridge, Mass., where Edwards spent most of his final days and wrote some of his most famous works.