Jonathan Edwards and His Theology of Revival Jonathan Edwards believed that the personal regeneration precedes revival. In regeneration that is possible only by God’s sovereignty, a soul that is dead in trespasses and sins is brought to life. When a crowd of people goes through this experience at once, it is often called revival or awakening. Most of the sermons that he preached were focused on God’s sovereignty in salvation and man’s inability to save himself. He made so many statements to display his foundational belief in divine sovereignty in salvation. In one instance, he declared, “ It is from diminutive thoughts of God, that you think He is obliged to show mercy to you when you seek it, though you have been for a long time willfully
