Jonathan Edwards A Life

Name: Jonathan Edwards A Life
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ISBN: 9780300105964

ISBN-10: 0300105967

ISBN-13: 9780300105964

Edition: 2004

Authors: George M. Marsden

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This definitive biography of America’s most important religious figure draws on newly available sources to reveal how he was shaped by the cultural and religious battles of his time. “A magisterial biography.”—Wall Street Journal “The finest biography of this towering figure.”—Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly “One way to make sense of contemporary evangelicalism is to consider how it has both hewed to and strayed from the path laid down by one of its most brilliant founding fathers. Thanks to Marsden’s authoritative new biography . . . the path is now more clear.”—Jay Tolson, U.S. News & World Report “In this conscientious and eloquent biography, pious Jonathan Edwards comes to unruly…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



List of Maps


Cotton Mather's Map of New England


Chronology of Edwards' Life and Times


Preface


Note on the Text


Introduction



A Time to Be Born



The Overwhelming Question



The Pilgrim's Progress



The Harmony of All Knowledge



Anxieties



"A Low, Sunk Estate and Condition"



On Solomon Stoddard's Stage



And on a Wider Stage



The Mighty Works of God and of Satan



The Politics of the Kingdom



"A City Set on a Hill"



God "Will Review the Flame Again, Even in the Darkest Times"



The Hands of God and the Hand of Christ



"He That Is Not with Us Is Against Us"



"Heavenly Elysium"



Conservative Revolutionary



A House Divided



A Model Town No More



Colonial Wars



"Thy Will Be Done"



"I Am Born to Be a Man of Strife"



The Crucible



The Mission



Frontier Struggles



Wartime



Against an "Almost Inconceivably Pernicious" Doctrine



Original Sin "in This Happy Age of Light and Liberty"



Challenging the Presumptions of the Age



The Unfinished Masterworks



The Transitory and the Enduring



Genealogical Table of Edwards' Relatives



Edwards' Sisters



Edwards' Immediate Family, from His Family Bible


Notes


Credits


Index