Jonathan Edwards: A Life

A finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and winner of the 2004...
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Author: George M. Marsden
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Language: English
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life by Marsden, George M.

Jonathan Edwards: A Life

$56.63

Jonathan Edwards: A Life

$56.63
Author: George M. Marsden
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and winner of the 2004 Bancroft Prize and of the American Society of Church History's Philip Schaff Prize

"The finest biography of this towering figure. . . . Marsden guides readers through Edwards's profoundly alien world with authority and fluidity."--Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly

A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. In this definitive and long-awaited 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 center of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics, and English Protestants. Drawing on newly 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 our American culture.

Meticulously researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a compelling portrait of an eminent American.

Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 07/11/2004
Pages: 615
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780300105964


Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 10/19/2004 pg. 33
New York Times 11/07/2004 pg. 30
Christianity Today 11/01/2011 pg. 68

About the Author
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.

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