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Article: Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical.(Book review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- June 22, 2006
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Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical. By Philip F. Gura. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. ISBN 0-8090-3031-4. Pp. xvi + 284. $24.00.
Somewhat fast on the heels of George M. Marsden's definitive biography of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford University Press, 2003) comes what Philip F. Gura terms not so much a biography per se but "a consideration of Edwards ... [that] range[s] selectively through his life and works to locate those moments that suggest his largest significance to the twenty-first century reader" (271). Part of Hill and Wang's American Portrait series (other subjects include Father Junipero Serra, Ida B. Wells, and Elvis Presley), the mere publication of ...