Jonathan Edwards & the Scientific Revolution
Edwards’s creative insights benefited much from Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy and the resultant scientific and technological advances of the English Enlightenment. Edwards was deeply enamored with natural philosophy, and he warmly embraced its new discoveries. He saw within it striking implications for revitalizing theology, which resulted in both scientific and radical theological innovation from which we might still glean today.
Biography
George Marsden (PhD, Yale University) is a distinguished historian of religion in American life. His biography of Jonathan Edwards won virtually every major historical prize, including the Bancroft Prize, the Merle Curti Award, the Philip Schaff Prize, and the Eugene Genovese Prize. Among his other books are The Soul of the American University, Religion and American Culture, and Fundamentalism and American Culture.
