Jonathan Edwards: A Life - Brossura

Marsden, George M.

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ISBN 10: 0300105967 ISBN 13: 9780300105964

Casa editrice: Yale University Press, 2004

Riassunto

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 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.

Meticulously researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a compelling portrait of an eminent American.

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Informazioni sull'autore

George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has written numerous books, including The Soul of the American University and The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Yale University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300105967
• ISBN 13: 9780300105964
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 637
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile