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MARRIAGE TO A DIFFICULT MAN
The Uncommon Union of Jonathan & Sarah Edwards
Elisabeth D. Dodds
TARGET DATE IS EARLY DECEMBER 2010.
Solid Ground Christian Books is now preparing a smyth-sewn hardcover reprint of Elisabeth Dodds' 1971 classic on the domestic life of Amerca's most famous theologian, Jonathan Edwards, and his wife Sarah. In addition to having access to Dodds' unforgettable account, you will also receive a spiritually insightful foreword by John and Noel Piper, an important biographical introduction by John Hannah, numerous appendices of important Edwardsean manuscripts, and an epilogue by Dwight Edwards, one of Edwards' living descendants.
"When I read Elisabeth Dodds' 'Marriage to a Difficult Man' it heightened my love for Jonathan Edwards. I already stood in awe of Edwards as a thinker and a faithful narrator of God's perfections. But here I saw more of the man and his domestic side. Seeing him close up did not diminish my admiration, but intensified my affection. I desire that all the theology I embrace make me a better husband and a better father. Elizabeth Dodds helped me see this more clearly in her portrayal of the Edwards familyà." --John Piper
Regarding the descendants of Jonathan & Sarah Edwards:
"Probably no two people married since the beginning of the 18th century have been the progenitors of so many distinguished persons as were Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Pierrepont." -The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
"Whatever the family has done it has done ably and nobly. Much of the capacity and talent, intensity and character, of the more than 1,400 of the Edwards family is due to Mrs. Edwards." -A.E. Winship
In 1900, A.E. Winship tracked down 1,400 of their descendants and published a study of the descendants this single marriage had produced:
13 college presidents
65 professors
100 lawyers, and a dean of an outstanding law school
30 judges
66 physicians
80 holders of public office:
3 United States senators
mayors of three large cities
governors of three states
a Vice President of the United States
a controller of the United States Treasury
Many large banks, banking houses, and insurance companies have been directed by them. They have been owners or superintendents of large coal mines; of large iron plants and vast oil interests, and silver mines. There is scarcely any great American industry that has not had one of this family among its chief promoters.
"Members of the family wrote 135 books and edited 18 journals and periodicals. They entered the ministry in platoons and sent 100 missionaries overseas, as well as stocking many mission boards with lay trustees... The line continues to be vigorous, intelligent, enlivening to society. Yet all of this achievement came out of a family with no large inherited fortune. All the children's accomplishments were a result of their personal initiative... Has any other mother contributed more vitality to the leadership of a nation?"
Target audience: Church, Family, Women, Men, Marriage and Counseling ministries, as well as students of Jonathan Edwards!
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