Jonathan Edwards: A Life

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Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the creator of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Offended God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century.

In this definitive and long-awaited biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both an excellent American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England during which Edwards was once reared―a frontier civilization on the center of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics, and English Protestants. Drawing on newly to be had sources, Marsden demonstrates how these cultural and spiritual 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, brand new world emerging out of the Enlightenment. On 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.


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