Jonathan Edwards
A Life
George M. Marsden(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 11. March 2003
Book
Hardback
640 pages
978-0-300-09693-4 (ISBN)
Description
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the 18th century. In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in which Edwards was reared - a frontier civilization at the centre of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics and English Protestants. Drawing on the available sources, Marsden demonstrates how these cultural and religious battles shaped Edwards's life and thought. Marsden reveals Edwards as a complex thinker and human being who struggled to reconcile his Puritan heritage with the secular, modern world emerging out of the Enlightenment. In this, Edwards's life anticipated the deep contradictions of American culture.
Reviews / Votes
"Marsden has brought together in a magisterial synthesis the details of the man's daily life and the range of ideas that challenged the assumptions of his time and ours." Edmund S. Morgan "This is the finest biography of Edwards that I have read. It will be the standard benchmark for Edwards scholarship for generations to come." Harry S. Stout, Yale UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Illustrations
30 illustrations, bibliog references, index
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 57 mm
Weight
1038 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-09693-4 (9780300096934)
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10/2008
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Person
George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has written numerous books, including The Soul of the American University and The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship.