“Despite his formality [Jonathan] Edwards was a passionate and affectionate man”¦.Once he had experienced the beauty of God’s redemptive love in Christ at the very center of the universe, everything else became secondary.”
–George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008), page 142
Marsden undoubtedly ranks as one of the great contemporary historians of American religion. His insights on the character of Edwards – who, he wisely points out, had at least as much influence on American thinking as his better-known contemporary Ben Franklin – are well worth perusing.
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