Jonathan Edwards : a life / George M. Marsden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsden, George M., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.

Edwards, Jonathan.

Congregational churches--United States--Clergy--Biography.

Congregational churches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 revive 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

Wartice

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-600) and index.

ISBN:

9786611722210

9781281722218

1281722219

9780300129946

0300129947

OCLC:

952732039