Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism

Le Beau has carefully blended Dickinson into both the spirit and the substance of his times to produce a much-needed study of a key figure.

~Journal of American History

A welcome addition to the literature, not only because Le Beau has produced a solid biography but because he also explores the broader intellectual milieu of Dickenson and provides a context for Dickinson's effort to guide Presbyterianism through a series of religious and theological controversies.

~Journal of American History

Both an intellectual biography of Dickinson as well as an intellectual history of some of the most important disputes in colonial religious life.

~Journal of Religious History

LeBeau's judicious appraisals of this issues will serve to enlighten scholars regarding the role of Jonathan Dickinson in the history of the Presbyterian Church.... an invaluable resource.

~Journal of the Early Republic

A substantial contribution to scholarship on American Presbyterianism and, more generally, to the intellectual history of American religion.

~Joyce D. Goodfriend

An intellectual biography of one of the most important but overlooked figures in colonial American religious and intellectual history.

~Religious Studies Review

A solid, illuminating account of Dickinson's ministry and intellectual pilgrimage.... a good biography if a consequential colonial divine who is past due for this careful attention.

~William and Mary Quarterly

[Dickinson was] the most powerful mind in his generation of American divines.

~Alan Heimert and Perry Miller, The Great Awakening