Jonathan Edwards S Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation

"This book will take its place in libraries next to the finest works abou;this creative thinker." --Religious Studies Review

". . . gives a fine sense of the present state and the future direction of Edwards studies . . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students." --Choice

" . . . this volume opens up new windows, not only on previously neglected texts of Jonathan Edwards, but on the larger cultural functions and effects of those texts." --Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Here is a compact survey of current Edwards scholarship. These essays present groundbreaking contemporary scholarship focusing on the writings of the 18th-century American philosopher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. They range widely across the Edwardsian canon, including his most prominent and important published texts--Religious Affections and The Nature of True Virtue--as well as unfamiliar treatises and sermons.