
- 317 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
An important new biography of America's founding religious father. Jonathan Edwards was America's most influential evangelical, whose revivals of the 1730s became those against which all subsequent ones have been judged.The marvelous accomplishment of Philip Gura's Jonathan Edwards is to place the rich intellectual landscape of America's most formidable evangelical within the upheaval of his times. Gura not only captures Edwards' brilliance but respectfully explains the enduring appeal of his theology: in a world of profound uncertainty, it held out hope of an authentic conversion---the quickening of the indwelling spirit of God in one's heart and the consequent certitude of Godly behavior and everlasting grace. Tracing Jonathan Edwards' life from his birth in 1703 to his untimely death in 1758, Gura magnificently reasserts Edwards rightful claim as the father of America's evangelical tradition.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- [ONE] - A Place in Time: The Connecticut Valley (1703)
- [TWO] - Season of Youth (1716β1727)
- [THREE] - Sowing for the Harvest: Northampton (1727β1734)
- [FOUR] - The Chief Scene of These Wonders: Hampshire County (1734β1739)
- [FIVE] - A great Deal of Noise About Religion (1740-1743)
- [SIX] - Northampton in Turmoil (1744β1750)
- [SEVEN] - Stockbridge and the Housatonics (1750-1757)
- [EIGHT] - Transatlantic Debate (1754β1758)
- [NINE] - Princeton (1757β1758)
- [TEN] - Coda: Thinking Through Edwards
- ALSO BY PHILIP F. GURA
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- AMERICAN PORTRAITS
- Copyright Page