01507nam a2200169Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97803000969340300096933 eng BX7260.E3 .M412 2003 Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards : a life / George M. Marsden New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003 xx, 615 p. : ill. , map, port. ; 25 cm. 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. Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758Edwards, Jonathan Theologe, 1703-1758.Congregational churches United States Clergy Biography. 45108 45108