George M. Marsden

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George M. Marsden


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February 25, 1939

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George M. Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and the American culture and has published numerous books, including Jonathan Edwards: A Life, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize given for the best work of history. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Jonathan Edwards:  A Life

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Fundamentalism and American...

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A Short Life of Jonathan Ed...

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The Twilight of the America...

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Understanding Fundamentalis...

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The Outrageous Idea of Chri...

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Reforming Fundamentalism: F...

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The Soul of the American Un...

4.20 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Religion and American Culture

3.81 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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“When I look into my heart, and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.”
George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards

“The critics of modernity were warning that one must be vigilant against the demands of hyperorganized commercial society and consumerism lest they undermine one’s true humanity.”
George M. Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief

“Lippmann declared that “if what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual ‘chooses’ to ‘invent’, then we are outside the traditions of civility.”
George M. Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief

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