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Jonathan Edwards is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. Arguably the most brilliant theologian ever born on American soil, Edwards (1703–1758) was also a pastor, a renowned preacher, a missionary to the Native Americans, a biographer, a college president, a philosopher, a loving husband, and the father of eleven children. George M. Marsden—widely acclaimed for his...

He had the highest expectations for his only son. The attentive father was an excellent teacher of Latin and Greek, the languages necessary to enter college. Jonathan was a born student, and his remarkable aptitudes must have gratified his father immensely. Jonathan was intellectually precocious enough to meet the demands of a perfectionist father, but in another way he could never quite measure up. Nothing mattered nearly as much as the state of one’s soul. Eternity was at stake. The concern
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