# “A stereotyped impression at best” by George Marsden

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- Published: 2009-01-29T14:44:11-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“Jonathan Edwards is, by all accounts, one of the most remarkable figures in American
history. More broadly, he is one of the most influential and respected Americans
in the history of Christianity. Yet he is not as well known or understood as he 
should be. Most people who know anything about him recall only something about a
school assignment of his sermon ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,’ which has
left them with a stereotyped impression at best.”

–George M. Marsden, _A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards_ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 
2008), ix.

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