Winslow's 1940 Pulitzer Prize winning account), and Iain Murray's fairly recent Jonathan Edwards:A New Biography (1988) still enjoys a wide readership, Marsden's book is to be preferred on account of three distinguishing factors: newly available resources, nonaligned (though sympathetic) composition, and a reliable contextualization of Edwards the man, the thinker, the cultural force. Though older biographies of Edwards continue to circulate (including Ola E. Jonathan Edwards:A Life already stands as the benchmark by which all biographical works on Edwards (1703-1758) are to be measured. The celebrated author of Fundamentalism and American Culture, the McAnaney Professor of History in the University of Notre Dame, George Marsden, delivers a singular masterpiece that will disappoint neither Edwards commentators nor enthusiasts. Since the initiation of the Yale University letterpress edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards nearly fifty years ago, twentieth- and (now) twenty-first century scholars and devotees of the Northampton, Massachusetts, sage have sought a biographical complement to the definitive Yale edition of Edwards' written corpus, a biography that would incorporate the latest scholarship and provide a critical assessment of the life and thought of North America's most eminent divine. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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