released 3/8/2024

In a lecture from 2010, church historian George Marsden describes some of lessons he has learned after many decades of reflection on the life and work of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758). Marsden contrasts the way of approaching life and reason typified in Benjamin Franklin with that evident in his contemporary Jonathan Edwards to reflect on some of the characteristic traits of later American culture to which Edwards’s “theology of active beauty” provides particularly helpful alternatives.

Marsden’s lecture is preceded by an interview from Volume 65 in which he discussed his 2003 book Jonathan Edwards: A Life. This lecture is provided courtesy of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding.

64 minutes

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