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An excellent way to get to know Edwards is through one of several modern biographies. Ola Winslow's Jonathan Edwards: 1703-1758 (Macmillan, 1940; Collier paperback, 1961) overcomes what now seems a dated style with memorable scene-setting and penetrating insights. Iain H. Murray's Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Banner of Truth, 1987) is perhaps the biography Edwards himself would most have liked. George M. Marsden's Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University Press, forthcoming in spring, 2003) is a compelling new account written with Marsden's characteristic care and wisdom.
Another good introduction is a book modeled closely on Edwards's Religious Affections (in …