{"product_id":"jonathan-edwards-by-george-m-marsden-9780300105964","title":"Jonathan Edwards","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and winner of the 2004 Bancroft Prize and the American Society of Church History's Philip Schaff Prize.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The finest biography of this towering figure. . . . Marsden guides readers through Edwards’s profoundly alien world with authority and fluidity.\"—Benjamin Schwarz, \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon \u003cem\u003eSinners in the Hands of an Angry God\u003c\/em\u003e, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. In this definitive and long-awaited biography, \u003cem\u003eJonathan Edwards\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a compelling portrait of an eminent American.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855792066796,"sku":"9780300105964","price":53.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23057383482294.jpg?v=1759277924","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/jonathan-edwards-by-george-m-marsden-9780300105964","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}