TY - BOOK AU - Marsden,George M. TI - Jonathan Edwards: a life SN - 0300096933 (alk. paper) AV - BX7260.E3 M412 2003 U1 - 922.57 PY - 2003/// CY - New Haven [Conn.] PB - Yale University Press KW - Edwards, Jonathan, KW - Congregational churches KW - United States KW - Clergy KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-600) and index; 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 ER -