| Description |
xx, 615 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-600) and index. |
| Contents |
A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring. |
| Subject |
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. |
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Congregational churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.
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Congregational churches. |
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United States. |
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Clergy. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0300096933 alkaline paper |
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