Jonathan Edwards, one of Northampton’s most famous residents, was a revolutionary preacher whose legacy has endured through centuries. He was the first minister in Northampton to baptize African ...

The Flaming Spider exaggerates Edwards’ feelings of failure as a minister, and misrepresents him when it suggests that he tried to build the New Jerusalem. But it offers a vivid portrayal of Edwards’ ...

While Jonathan Edwards’s intellectual agenda dominated America’s formal religious thought until the mid-nineteenth century, his renovation of Calvinism and his writings on revival have continued to be ...