| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Jonathan Edwards: A Life. By George M. Marsden. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xxii, 615 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-09693-3.)

Mark Twain once said that Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a resplendent intellect gone mad. Twain, however, would be surprised to see a century later an impressive renaissance in Edwards studies. During the last few years alone many works have appeared dealing with Edwards's thought, such as Joseph A. Conforti, Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture, 1995; Michael J. McClymond, Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards, 1998; Gerald R. McDermott, Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths, 2000; and Douglas A. Sweeney, Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, 2003, to name only a few. Yet, as recognized by all, what was crucially missing in this great renaissance was a new, modern biography of Edwards. The last one appeared over sixty years ago: Ola E. Winslow's Pulitzer Prizewinning Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography, 1940. But now, at last, a new biography of Edwards's life and times has seen the light of day.

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