Jonathan Edwards : [electronic resource] a life / George M. Marsden.
2003
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Title
Jonathan Edwards : [electronic resource] a life / George M. Marsden.
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
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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 18th century. In this 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 centre of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics and English Protestants. Drawing on the 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 American culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-600) and index.
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.
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.
Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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