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Edwards & the Church
Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-first Century
George Marsden
November 3, 2010
jonathan edwards, modernity, north america
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Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-first Century

What are the most helpful insights that we can gain from Jonathan Edwards’s theology today? This lecture uses the contrast between Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards in the eighteenth century to reflect on some of the most characteristic traits of later American culture to which Edwards’s “theology of active beauty” provides particularly helpful alternatives.

 

Biography

George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has written numerous books, including The Soul of the American University and The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship.

 

 

 

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