Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards

A Life

  1. 640 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Jonathan Edwards

A Life

About this book

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.

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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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300129946
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Maps
  3. Chronology of Edwards’ Life and Times
  4. Preface
  5. Note on the Text
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. A Time to Be Born
  8. Chapter 2. The Overwhelming Question
  9. Chapter 3. The Pilgrim’s Progress
  10. Chapter 4. The Harmony of All Knowledge
  11. Chapter 5. Anxieties
  12. Chapter 6. ‘‘A Low, Sunk Estate and Condition’’
  13. Chapter 7. On Solomon Stoddard’s Stage
  14. Chapter 8. And on a Wider Stage
  15. Chapter 9. The Mighty Works of God and of Satan
  16. Chapter 10. The Politics of the Kingdom
  17. Chapter 11. ‘‘A City Set on a Hill’’
  18. Chapter 12. God ‘‘Will Revive the Flame Again, Even in the Darkest Times’’
  19. Chapter 13. The Hands of God and the Hand of Christ
  20. Chapter 14. ‘‘He That Is Not with Us Is Against Us’’
  21. Chapter 15. ‘‘Heavenly Elysium’’
  22. Chapter 16. Conservative Revolutionary
  23. Chapter 17. A House Divided
  24. Chapter 18. A Model Town No More
  25. Chapter 19. Colonial Wars
  26. Chapter 20. ‘‘Thy Will Be Done’’
  27. Chapter 21. ‘‘I Am Born to Be a Man of Strife’’
  28. Chapter 22. The Crucible
  29. Chapter 23. The Mission
  30. Chapter 24. Frontier Struggles
  31. Chapter 25. Wartime
  32. Chapter 26. Against an ‘‘Almost Inconceivably Pernicious’’ Doctrine
  33. Chapter 27. Original Sin ‘‘in This Happy Age of Light and Liberty’’
  34. Chapter 28. Challenging the Presumptions of the Age
  35. Chapter 29. The Unfinished Masterworks
  36. Chapter 30. The Transitory and the Enduring
  37. Appendix A. Genealogical Table of Edwards’ Relatives
  38. Appendix B. Edwards’ Sisters
  39. Appendix C. Edwards’ Immediate Family, from His Family Bible
  40. Notes
  41. Credits
  42. Index