Jonathan Edwards Reader

Book Description:

Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America's greatest theologian and philosopher.

Author:

Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 - March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals.

Endorsement:

"Jonathan Edwards remains unequaled among North American theologians. These selections exemplify his special traits: eloquence, knowledge of the human heart, and metaphysical passion for complex beauty in nature, God, and Being-in-general." -Richard R. Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, The Divinity School, Harvard University

"The most comprehensive one-volume Edwards anthology ever assembled." - Gerald R. McDermott, Religious Studies Review

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