Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical

by Philip F. Gura

Book Overview

An important new biography of America's founding religious father. Jonathan Edwards was America's most influential evangelical, whose revivals of the 1730s became those against which all subsequent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809030314
• ISBN13: 9780809030316
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Edwards on adult conversion

Philip Gura provides an enjoyable, concise biography of this American original -- a brilliant man who understood the need for personal conversion. Edwards rejected a dry orthodoxy that does not produce personal repentence and faith. Gura shows Edwards' consistant stand that people must actively respond to God -- both intellectually and emotionally. Otherwise we remain in our natural state -- unforgiven -- sinners in the hands of the moral law.