TY - BOOK ID - 77868501 TI - Jonathan Edwards : a life PY - 2003 SN - 1281722219 9786611722210 0300129947 9780300129946 9780300096934 0300096933 9781281722218 PB - New Haven : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Congregational churches KW - Clergy KW - Edwards, Jonathan, KW - أدوردس، يوناثان KW - 2 EDWARDS, JONATHAN KW - 2 EDWARDS, JONATHAN Godsdienst. Theologie--EDWARDS, JONATHAN KW - Godsdienst. Theologie--EDWARDS, JONATHAN UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868501 AB - 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. ER -