A finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle
Award for Biography and winner of the 2004 Bancroft Prize and of
the American Society of Church History's Philip Schaff Prize
 "The finest biography of this towering figure. . . .
Marsden guides readers through Edwards’s profoundly alien world
with authority and fluidity."—Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly
A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758)Â 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. Â Meticulously
researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a
compelling portrait of an eminent American.
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