Jonathan Edwards : A Life
by George M. MarsdenFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2004-07-11
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
This definitive biography of America's most important religious figure draws on newly available sources to reveal how he was shaped by the cultural and religious battles of his time. Selected as one of the Best Books of 2003 by Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post Book World, Christian Century, Books & Culture, Beliefnet, Publishers Weekly, and Christian Science Monitor. Featured in Preaching magazine as "one of the top ten books every preacher should read." Winner of the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians, the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize sponsored by the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the 2004 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography, and the Eugene Genovese Prize for the Best Book in American History from the Historical Society. Book jacket.
Author Biography
George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | ix | ||
| Cotton Mather's Map of New England | x | ||
| Chronology of Edwards' Life and Times | xiii | ||
| Preface | xvii | ||
| Note on the Text | xxi | ||
| Introduction | 1 | (10) | |
| Chapter 1. A Time to Be Born | 11 | (14) | |
| Chapter 2. The Overwhelming Question | 25 | (19) | |
| Chapter 3. The Pilgrim's Progress | 44 | (15) | |
| Chapter 4. The Harmony of All Knowledge | 59 | (23) | |
| Chapter 5. Anxieties | 82 | (19) | |
| Chapter 6. "A Low, Sunk Estate and Condition" | 101 | (13) | |
| Chapter 7. On Solomon Stoddard's Stage | 114 | (19) | |
| Chapter 8. And on a Wider Stage | 133 | (17) | |
| Chapter 9. The Mighty Works of God and of Satan | 150 | (20) | |
| Chapter 10. The Politics of the Kingdom | 170 | (14) | |
| Chapter 11. "A City Set on a Hill" | 184 | (17) | |
| Chapter 12. God "Will Revive the Flame Again, Even in the Darkest Times" | 201 | (13) | |
| Chapter 13. The Hands of God and the Hand of Christ | 214 | (13) | |
| Chapter 14. "He That Is Not with Us Is Against Us" | 227 | (12) | |
| Chapter 15. "Heavenly Elysium" | 239 | (14) | |
| Chapter 16. Conservative Revolutionary | 253 | (15) | |
| Chapter 17. A House Divided | 268 | (23) | |
| Chapter 18. A Model Town No More | 291 | (15) | |
| Chapter 19. Colonial Wars | 306 | (14) | |
| Chapter 20. "Thy Will Be Done" | 320 | (21) | |
| Chapter 21. "I Am Born to Be a Man of Strife" | 341 | (16) | |
| Chapter 22. The Crucible | 357 | (18) | |
| Chapter 23. The Mission | 375 | (20) | |
| Chapter 24. Frontier Struggles | 395 | (19) | |
| Chapter 25. Wartime | 414 | (18) | |
| Chapter 26. Against an "Almost Inconceivably Pernicious" Doctrine | 432 | (15) | |
| Chapter 27. Original Sin "in This Happy Age of Light and Liberty" | 447 | (12) | |
| Chapter 28. Challenging the Presumptions of the Age | 459 | (13) | |
| Chapter 29. The Unfinished Masterworks | 472 | (18) | |
| Chapter 30. The Transitory and the Enduring | 490 | (17) | |
| Appendix A. Genealogical Table of Edwards' Relatives | 507 | (3) | |
| Appendix B. Edwards' Sisters | 510 | (1) | |
| Appendix C. Edwards' Immediate Family, from His Family Bible | 511 | (2) | |
| Notes | 513 | (88) | |
| Credits | 601 | (2) | |
| Index | 603 |
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