A bright new star in the digital Christian firmament at Faithlife Corp. was born just over 300 years ago. Images of Jonathan Edwards generally portray him as a narrow-faced, unsmiling man wearing a ...

Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards Nathaniel Taylor,New Haven Theology,and the Legacyof Jonathan Edwardsby Douglas A. SweeneyOxford Univ. Press, 2002272 pp.; $45 ...

Born 300 years ago this Sunday, the Rev. Jonathan Edwards is little known to many Americans except, perhaps, as the answer to a trivia question: Who wrote the nation's most famous sermon, "Sinners in ...

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 ...

Jonathan Edwards is, by general consensus, the greatest theologian ever to have emerged from the New World. Since the time of his death, his religious writings have been continually studied, both here ...

THE religious situation in New England at the death of Jonathan Edwards was marked by a painful tension of thought and feeling which portended some ultimate disruption and catastrophe. The sublimated ...

Introduction : theology and history -- Theology in colonial America -- The long life and final collapse of the Puritan canopy -- Republicanism and religion : the American exception -- Christian ...

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 ...

HISTORIAN GEORGE MARSDEN begins his excellent new biography of Jonathan Edwards, born 300 years ago last week, with this brief sentence: “Edwards was extraordinary.” It is hard to imagine a better ...

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