Jonathan
Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden
Book 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 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.
Hardcover from Yale Univ Pr
Book Published: April, 2003
