This miscellany offers a fascinating look into one of the signs that Edwards sees as pointing to true godliness and piety. That sign, in this case, is sincerity. Edwards muses on what constitutes true sincerity and how such an affection is related to true godliness.
868. SIGNS OF GODLINESS. SINCERITY.
As the Scripture is plain [...]

Monergism.com, who often has amazing deals on solid books, is offering Richard Muller’s magisterial Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics at $79, 61% off the $200 list price. This is a very important set as it seeks to demonstrate the development of theology in the latter part of the sixteenth and on into the seventeenth centuries. [...]

Starting today, aDaSL begins a new feature using Twitter. Important dates in the life of Jonathan Edwards will be noted, and if there are particularly relevant writings pertaining to those events then there will be a corresponding link.
So if you use Twitter, be sure to follow aDaSLblog so that you can keep [...]

Recently published by IVP Academic is Doug Sweeney’s new book, Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word: A Model of Faith and Thought. This looks to be a rare journey into Edwards’s obsession with the Bible and his manner of exegesis. I hope to review this one soon, but for now here [...]

This is a special edition of Miscellany Mondays, as I’m presenting one of the miscellanies that I got to see in its original notebook while at the Beinecke Library last week. This is a fine example of Edwards’s working out a particular thought, here being how grace works in the life of a believer, [...]

The last day of my adventure in New Haven, and it’s hard to believe it’s already here. The week has flown by. On the agenda today is a special tour of sites related to Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening in Connecticut and Massachusetts. To document our trip, this post will have [...]

Thursday was the last day in the classroom, Friday being set aside for a field trip to various sites related to Jonathan Edwards in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
For our final discussions, the topic was Jonathan Edwards’s legacy. This is one of the most popular topics in Edwards scholarship today, and one that is [...]

One of the biggest perks of studying Jonathan Edwards at Yale is the treasure trove that is the Beinecke Library. Though a strange looking building on the outside (it’s been described as a giant, granite egg crate), deep underground lies what is estimated to be nearly 95% of the extant manuscripts of Jonathan Edwards [...]

With a short teaser of the period of the Great Awakening given by Dr. Harry Stout the previous day, today we were to look at Edwards and the awakening in greater detail. In the years just before the awakenings really took off a highly noticeable declension in church attendance and new membership was plaguing [...]

Sorry that these posts are coming so late. With all the reading and other things going on this week, I haven’t had as much time for blogging as I had hoped to. So, many apologies.
Day two of the class centered around looking at Edwards as a theologian. He was presented as both [...]