Jonathan Edwards

By: George M. Marsden

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Jonathan Edwards is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the 18th century.

In this definitive and long-awaited biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in which Edwards was reared - a frontier civilization at the center of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics, and English Protestants. Drawing on newly available sources, Marsden demonstrates how these cultural and religious battles shaped Edwards' life and thought. Marsden reveals Edwards as a complex thinker and human being who struggled to reconcile his Puritan heritage with the secular, modern world emerging out of the Enlightenment. In this, Edwards' life anticipated the deep contradictions of our American culture.

Meticulously researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a compelling portrait of an eminent American.

©2018 George M. Marsden (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

A Good Overview of a Good Man

This book is a nice overview of Edwards as a man of his times. Well worth the time for listening.

And on audible procedures: I think it really sucks that I can’t just rate by stars, after listening, and that I must write something. Poor way of doing business…

Magnificent

Well written and well read by the narrator. One of the best audiobooks and biographies I've listened to.

Profound life and ministry legacy

Thorough research and detail - well done - let the next generation be blessed by the influence of Edwards

" Inspiring book and we'll narrated!"

The most compelling book I have listened. Highly recommend listening, will make you want to seek Jesus more and more.

Fantastic biography that puts the man within his world and gives us an understanding of what he believed and taught.

No other biography I have read has better shown the world that the subject is in and how he interacted with it and work to shape it than this one.