Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller (English) Hardcover Book

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Kirkus US Review

This is in a wholly different category from its predecessors in the American Men of Letters series. Where the others have been urbane, scholarly but delightful biographies, this is definitely not for the general reader. It is deep delving into the drama of ideas behind Edwards' works, rarely understood by modern theologians, and of interest only to professionals, students of theology, and some scholarly researchers into colonial America. This is a technical and highly intellectual criticism of Edwards' writings and lectures. Lengthy explanations and impressions are offered on the study of Locke and Newton which inspired his first Boston lecture, and launched him on a lifetime of preaching. He changed from the cold theoretician to the fiery Puritan, who reached the height of his career in 1947 when his hell fire sermons held sway. Biographical facts with little human interest are outlined in four dull sections labelled External Biography. But the author has succeeded in keeping pace with Edward's philosophical development, and any student sufficiently interested in going along, will have to penetrate technical language of both Edwards and his biographer to understand the book....Perhaps Edwards defies popular treatment, as the Ola Winslow biography in 1940 was reported as "ponderous going, painting Edwards as a cold, self-disciplined, literal New Englander...For a limited and special audience." (Kirkus Reviews)

Details ISBN0837165512 Author Perry Miller Year 1973 ISBN-10 0837165512 ISBN-13 9780837165516 Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States Publication Date 1973-06-08 Place of Publication Westport Pages 366 Language English Media Book Illustrations black & white illustrations Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc DEWEY B Series American Men of Letters DOI 10.1604/9780837165516 UK Release Date 1973-06-08 NZ Release Date 1973-06-08 US Release Date 1973-06-08 Audience Age 7-17 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Audience General AU Release Date 1973-06-07 We've got this

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