George Marsden
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George Mish Marsden (born 1939) is an American historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American evangelicalism. He is best known for his award-winning biography of the New England clergyman Jonathan Edwards, a prominent theologian of Colonial America.[3]
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Born | George Mish Marsden (1939-02-25) February 25, 1939 (age 85) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US |
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Lucie Commeret (m. 1969) |
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Thesis | The New School Presbyterian Mind[2] (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Sydney E. Ahlstrom |
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Discipline | History |
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Main interests | American evangelicalism |
Notable works | Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003) |
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