Jonathan Edwards: America's Genius

Name: Jonathan Edwards: America's Genius
Brand: Christianaudio
Availability: InStock
Author: George
ISBN: 9781545900529

Author: George, Christian Timothy

Series: Trailblazers

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Christian Audio

Published: 12/15/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Religious Nonfiction, Religion

Synopsis

Jonathan Edwards was just an ordinary American boy but he was different too. The country he lived in wasn't the America of today - but a new world full of adventure and opportunity. Battles and Tomahawks were just some of the thrilling adventures that his family lived through. But Jonathan also loved the small things in life too. In an age of scientific discovery, Edwards saw God's beauty displayed most perfectly through nature. His journals are filled with drawings of plants, animals, and spiders because he knew that each one of them reflected the creativity of its Creator. His mind was full of questions and he grappled for the answers. Intellectually there were few to beat him. However it wasn't just his amazing intelligence that set him apart from other boys his age - he may have had a thirst for knowledge but he also had a strong desire for the things of God. His genius and abilities teamed up well with his faith and love for the Lord Jesus Christ. One day the country that would become the United States of America would look back at this man of brilliance as a founding influence on their land.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie

Audiobook version This was slightly bizarre to say the least. It was a little like listening to a Disney story. The narrative jumps around in the life of Jonathan Edwards from his early years to later life and then back again. There are whole chapters on his love of spiders as a boy next to his death......more

Goodreads review by Jami

A great book to read with older kids! I loved the high level overview of Edwards life and his emphasis on trusting so fully in the Lord! This is a fictionalized biography so they do take a lot of liberties with the details and stories and I was left wondering many times “hmm...I wonder what the real......more

Goodreads review by Hannah

Well, this book does sort of provide an outline of Edwards's life, so I'll give it that. But with all the imaginative liberties the author took with dialogue, inner thoughts, and descriptive details, I'd classify this squarely in the category historical fiction—not biography or non-fiction. What's w......more

Goodreads review by Carol

Spiders?!!! The great theologian, Jonathan Edwards, had an obsession with spiders? Maybe he did, but I find it hard to believe that he had such an obsession that his last words as he was dying were spoken to a spider! This is written as a children's book and I guess the author wanted to spark their......more