Jonathan Edwards

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Jonathan Edwards: A Life

Description of Jonathan Edwards:

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.

“A magisterial biography.”—Wall Street Journal

“The finest biography of this towering figure.”—Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly

“One way to make sense of contemporary evangelicalism is to consider how it has both hewed to and strayed from the path laid down by one of its most brilliant founding fathers. Thanks to Marsden’s authoritative new biography . . . the path is now more clear.”—Jay Tolson, U.S. News & World Report

“In this conscientious and eloquent biography, pious Jonathan Edwards comes to unruly life with all his unresolved complexity intact.”—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

“Superb and engrossing.”—Robert D. Richardson, Washington Post Book World

“[Marsden] writes with such verve that he has given us not only the definitive biography but also a narrative that reads like a novel.”—Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal

• Finalist for a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography
• Winner of the 2004 Bancroft Prize
• Named one of Atlantic Monthly’s Books of the Year
• Winner of the 2004 Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2001–2003 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize

George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.




Information on Jonathan Edwards from the publisher:

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.

About George M. Marsden:

George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Description of George M. Marsden, author of Jonathan Edwards:

2004 Bancroft Prize! "Marsden writes with such verve that he has given us not only the definitive biography, but also a narrative that reads like a novel---that most appropriate art form for examining the interior drama of the soul,"---Commonweal. A panoramic view of the man and his milieu. 640 pages, softcover. Yale University.