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 ...

Two hundred years ago at Princeton, the ministry of Jonathan Edwards ended (March 22, 1758) in untimely death. He was and is considered to be one of the outstanding minds of American history. He ...

JONATHAN EDWARDS (348 pp.)—Perry Miller—Sloane ($3.50). On the horizon back of Boston in 1740, there appeared a swirl of religious excitement no bigger than a preacher’s warning forefinger. A ...

The modern revival of interest in the Puritan pastor-philosopher Jonathan Edwards began with historian Perry Miller’s 1949 biography. In Miller’s telling, Edwards was a solitary genius in the ...