Jonathan Edwards: A Life
by George M. Marsden
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Author: George M. MarsdenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-07-11
ISBN: 0300105967
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Review: A Great Biography on a Great American Theologian!
Summary: 4 Stars
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is remembered for his "Sinners
in the Hands of An Angry God" and is the greatest Calvinist
theologian in American religious history. As a Presbyterian pastor I consider this book to be required reading for an understanding of the Puritan mind in colonial America. Edward's
insistence on the sovereignity of God; his power and love for his erring children is a message profitable to Christians in this age when sinners, seekers and sundry non-saints are seeking for faith,
Marsden's biography is anything but dry, dusty and cluttered with littered footnotes! The Bancroft Prize winner is adept at
setting Edwards in the partriarchal culture of his day. Edwards was a frail, thin genius who spent most of his day in deep study of scripture. The Yale educated Edwards was served with love by his wife (the mother of 11 children!) and close family friends.
His life was relatively uneventful marred by his pulpit dismissal from Northampton. Edwards served as a missionary to the native Americans in his region ending life as the President of Princeton.
Marsden's great biography reads like a novel. Edwards believed in slavery; was a Calvinist to the core and engaged in many
theological battles. He was what was called a "New Light' pastor
supporting evanglistic outreach through revivals. Edwards was a good friend of the famed evangelist George Whitefield.
Edwards was interested in everything from natural philosophy
(especially spiders) to abstruse theology. He was an outstanding
Christian whom every Reformed Pastor should come to know.
Marsden is a wonderful master of prose. In his pages Jonathan
Edwards lives in his eighteenth century world. In reading this
book the reader will be transported back to a time and place much different that our 21st century multicultured society.
If one wants to understand the genesis of evangelical Christianity this is a great place to begin. An excellent book!
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