The great awakener.

Commonweal | June 6, 2003| | Copyright

Jonathan Edwards

A Life

George M. Marsden

Yale University Press, $35, 640 pp.

With the possible exception of Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) must count as the only American theologian who can claim equal (well, almost equal) rank with such greats as John Calvin and Augustine. Son and grandson of Congregational ministers, at thirteen he entered Yale, where he quickly surpassed other students in his mastery of logic, close reading of John Locke and Isaac Newton, and pioneering scientific observations (his study of ...

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