Jonathan Edwards : a life /
Marsden, George M., 1939-
Jonathan Edwards : a life / George M. Marsden. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003. - xx, 615 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-600) and index.
A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring.
0300096933 (hardback : alk. paper)
2002013611
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
Congregational churches--Clergy--United States--Biography.
BX7260.E3 / M412 2003
285.8/092 B
Jonathan Edwards : a life / George M. Marsden. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003. - xx, 615 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-600) and index.
A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring.
0300096933 (hardback : alk. paper)
2002013611
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
Congregational churches--Clergy--United States--Biography.
BX7260.E3 / M412 2003
285.8/092 B