| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

George M. Marsden. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 615. $35.00.
Committed to depicting Jonathan Edwards "in his own times and in his own terms" (p. 2), George M. Marsden brilliantly clarifies his life and thought by locating him in multiple contexts: the international Reformed Protestant movement, the intrigues of the British Empire, the conflicts of colonial Massachusetts, the strife of rural villages, and a set of bafflingly complicated relationships within his larger family. This book is analytically rewarding, but it makes its points by telling a story, rich with detail, grounded in solid research, and informed by mastery of the period and by appreciative, although not uncritical, sympathy for the subject.	1
Because of Edwards's frequent exchange of letters with Scottish pastors, his admiring comments on continental theologians, and his debates with British moralists, historians have long recognized his place within an international network of Reformed clergy. Marsden further illumines this Reformed heritage by situating the New England revivals within their international setting and by analyzing Edwards's close yet distant relationship with the revivalist George Whitefield, whom Edwards supported, although with a greater willingness to criticize than Whitefield sometimes liked. The book also captures the breadth of Edwards's Reformed theology, accentuating especially his preoccupation with millennialism throughout his career. For Marsden's Edwards, millennial themes interpreted the sweep of history, the colonial religious awakenings, and the dilemmas and disappointments of village life.	. . .

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