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Title: Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden ISBN: 0-300-09693-3 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must-Read Edwards Biography
Comment: George Marsden has written an excellent biography of America's preeminent theologian. The work is an even-handed account not a romanticized version of Edwards' life. Still Edward's impeccable integrity, devotion to God and astounding mental aptitude shine through the pages of the book. We not only get a look at EdwardÕs life but the times and culture that produced him and the one he interacted with as a pastor and scholar. This work will be the litmus test for future works on Edwards and a model for other biographers on how to write a lifeÕs story. The prose is fluid and keeps the attention of the reader from the beginning to the end. I highly recommend that those interested in Jonathan Edwards to place this book at the top of their prospective reading list.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Surprisingly Christian Biography
Comment: What's most surprising about Yale's latest attempt at an Edwards Biography is how thoroughly Christian it is. Having extensively studied the 18th century Puritan, I've long been baffled by just how many of his biographers have attempted to make Edwards, to quote G. Marsden, "over in their own images" (p.2). In so doing, some of these books have made his Orthodox Christianity, which was truly the centerpiece of his life and thought, strangely and eerily quiet. Some biographers have tried to separate Edwards' religious convictions from his genius. Marsden doesn't. Any biographer who wishes to write honestly about Edwards must necessarily write much on Edwards' faith and his God. Marsden does. These things were truly the centerpiece of his life and so therefore should be the centerpiece of any book about his life.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent and mostly fair biography
Comment: I loved reading this. It was a great companion to the recent uber-bestselling bios of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and especially Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin. This is a great look at the way the country was changing, socially, politically, and especially religiously, right before the revolutionary period, through the eyes of a man who is considered perhaps America's greatest Christian theologian. Edwards seems to have grown in life as much if not more through his failures as his successes. That's a lesson we could all learn. However, although you don't have to be an evangelical to appreciate this book, I think it helps a little... 4.5 stars (I rounded up)
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Title: America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln by Mark A. Noll ISBN: 0195151119 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: A Jonathan Edwards Reader by Jonathan Edwards, John Edwin Smith, Harry S. Stout, Kenneth P. Minkema ISBN: 0300062044 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father by Francis J. Bremer ISBN: 0195149130 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, 3) by N. T. Wright ISBN: 0800626796 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War by E. Brooks Holifield ISBN: 0300095740 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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