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Jonathan Edwards : A New Biography

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Overview: This is the first full-length Life of Jonathan Edwards to appear for approaching fifty years. During the intervening period, the Paster of Northampton, Missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge, and President of the New Jersey College (later Princeton), has been widely recognized as the greatest intellectual figure in 18th-century America. Never before has so much material by Edwards, or such detailed studies of his thought, been available. Yet many of those who have led this "renaissance" of Edwards' studies remain personally out of sympathy with almost every one of their subject's personal convictions. Special interest therefore attaches to the author's new and carefully researched biography. Writing with the easy style, spiritual insight, and sympathy with his subject, which marked his earlier biographical works (e.g. of C. H. Spurgeon and D. M. Lloyd-Jones), the author builds on the older lives of Edwards, but also harvests material from more recent studies. The author believes that Edwards cannot be understood apart from his faith. Only when he is seen as a Christian, first and foremost, do his life and writings make sense. The integrity of this interpretation is confirmed in chapter after chapter, as Edwards is allowed to speak for himself. The result is a biography which is both factually and theologically reliable. Edwards' theology is set in its proper context of his everyday life. We are able to follow him in public and private - as pastor in the days of the Great Awakening as well as in the 'wilderness' years in the outpost of Stockbridge. His family relationships (especially with his wife Sarah) punctuate the narrative and add both interest and pathos to it. This outstanding study of a great man of God is not only an exceptional biography; it also serves as a classic illustration of how the church today can and should learn from its past history.

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285.8092 M96j

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom : The Banner of Truth Trust., 1992

Deskripsi Fisik

503

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English

ISBN/ISSN

0 85151 494 4

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285.8092

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