Jonathan Edwards A Life [Paperback]

Jonathan Edwards (17031758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermonSinners 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 reareda 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 Edwardss 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, Edwardss life anticipated the deep contradictions of our American culture.

Meticulously researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a compelling portrait of an eminent American.

"This universally lauded biography portrays America’s greatest theologian, 300 years after his birth."—Richard N. Ostling,Associated Press

Jonathan Edwardsreadsmuch like a novel, filled with local color and cultural context. . . . Whether the reader is an academic theologian, a cultural historian or a nonprofessional, this imaginative and sympathetic reading of Edwal%