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 and American culture. In other words, if you were a pastor or theologian back then and wanted to gain a hearing, you had to claim the mantle of Edwards to be considered legitimate.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The life and times of American theologian Jonathan Edwards are told from the viewpoint of his wife, Sarah, in this production. Adapted from Maggie Rowe's one-person play, the program tells the story ...

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 ...