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Article: Jonathan Edwards: A Life
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life. By George Marsden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, xx + 640 pp., $35.00.
Two thousand three marked not only the tercentennial of the birth of Jonathan Edwards, but also a landmark year for Edwards studies. A number of local, regional, and national conferences convened; scores of essays were published-including Journal of Religious Ethics and Reformation and Revival Journal devoting entire issues to Edwards; and a number of important books on Edwards rolled off the presses-not the least of which was George Marsden's much-anticipated biography of one of America's most celebrated Christians. The first full-length scholarly biography of Edwards in roughly half ...