Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography

Summary

Ola Elizabeth Winslow recounts the life of Jonathan Edwards, the New England preacher and theologian whose sermons helped ignite the Great Awakening. The book follows him from his Connecticut boyhood through his Northampton ministry, his dismissal by his congregation, and his final years among the frontier settlement at Stockbridge. Winslow treats Edwards as both a rigorous Calvinist thinker and a complex human figure shaped by colonial America.