Jonathan Edwards : A Life

This biography reveals Jonathan Edwards as a complex thinker & human being who struggled to reconcile his Puritan heritage with the secular, modern world emerging out of the Enlightenment.

George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

List of Maps

ix

Cotton Mather's Map of New England

x

Chronology of Edwards' Life and Times

xiii

Preface

xvii

Note on the Text

xxi

Introduction

1

(10)

A Time to Be Born

11

(14)

The Overwhelming Question

25

(19)

The Pilgrim's Progress

44

(15)

The Harmony of All Knowledge

59

(23)

Anxieties

82

(19)

``A Low, Sunk Estate and Condition''

101

(13)

On Solomon Stoddard's Stage

114

(19)

And on a Wider Stage

133

(17)

The Mighty Works of God and of Satan

150

(20)

The Politics of the Kingdom

170

(14)

``A City Set on a Hill''

184

(17)

God ``Will Revive the Flame Again, Even in the Darkest Times''

201

(13)

The Hands of God and the Hand of Christ

214

(13)

``He That Is Not with Us Is Against Us''

227

(12)

``Heavenly Elysium''

239

(14)

Conservative Revolutionary

253

(15)

A House Divided

268

(23)

A Model Town No More

291

(15)

Colonial Wars

306

(14)

``Thy Will Be Done''

320

(21)

``I Am Born to Be a Man of Strife''

341

(16)

The Crucible

357

(18)

The Mission

375

(20)

Frontier Struggles

395

(19)

Wartime

414

(18)

Against an ``Almost Inconceivably Pernicious'' Doctrine

432

(15)

Original Sin ``in This Happy Age of Light and Liberty''

447

(12)

Challenging the Presumptions of the Age

459

(13)

The Unfinished Masterworks

472

(18)

The Transitory and the Enduring

490

(17)

Appendix A. Genealogical Table of Edwards' Relatives

507

(3)

Appendix B. Edwards' Sisters

510

(1)

Appendix C. Edwards' Immediate Family, from His Family Bible

511

(2)

Notes

513

(88)

Credits

601

(2)

Index

603

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Jonathan Edwards : A Life

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