In the last couple of years, several short introductions/brief biographies pertaining to Jonathan Edwards have been published. The impetus behind the publications appears to be a concerted effort to make Edwards more accessible to the average reader, even targeted groups of average readers. Such is the case with Douglas A. Sweeney’s new book, [...]

Of all the areas relating to the study of Jonathan Edwards that scholars have delved into, one of the most overlooked and neglected is the study of Edwards’s legacy. Much of the work to date has focused on Edwards’s theological and philosophical pursuits, but little attempt has been made to trace the influence of [...]

The rise of American evangelicalism has long fascinated scholars.  In his recent work, The Great Awakening, Thomas S. Kidd presents the story of American evangelicalism through the lens of the concurrent rise of American revivalism.  Revivalism has often been discussed in terms of the “First” and “Second” Great Awakenings, but such a dichotomy does not [...]

Five years after publishing his definitive biography on Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, George Marsden is back with a shorter volume on Edwards’s life, aptly titled A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards.  However, this is not simply an abridgment of the larger work.  Rather, Marsden has constructed a new narrative in hopes of making [...]