JONATHAN EDWARDS by George M. Marsden ( 9780300105964 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

JONATHAN EDWARDS
A LIFE

By:

George M. Marsden

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0300105967

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9780300105964

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Publisher:

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 July, 2004

Pages:

640

Description:

This biography of an America religious figure draws on newly available sources to reveal how he was shaped by the cultural and religious battles of his time.

Synopsis:

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.

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30 b-w illus.

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Yale University Press

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