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In the hardened towns of 1730s New England, something is about to break open. The Flame of Jonathan Edwards follows the real and imagined lives of those swept up in America's First Great Awakening — a thunderclap of spiritual revival that shook an entire generation out of its religious sleep.
At the center stands Jonathan Edwards, a young theologian who preaches to full pews and empty hearts, wrestling alone in his study before dawn, uncertain whether the fire he longs for will ever truly come. Beside him is his wife Sarah, faithful and quietly yearning, waiting for something she cannot yet name. On the edges of the church stands Thomas Hall, a widowed farmer who has spent a decade telling himself he needs no one — and Hannah, a sharp-minded girl of sixteen who refuses to inherit a faith she has never truly felt.
When revival finally breaks, it does not come as they expected. It comes in tears and trembling, in whispered confessions and broken silences, in the words of open-air preacher George Whitefield carrying his voice across a field of thousands. It comes differently to each of them — and asks something different from each of them.
A novel about doubt, transformation, and the kind of faith that cannot be borrowed from anyone else.
