On February 1, 2010, Moody Publishers will unveil The Essential Edwards Collection. This collection appears to be designed to make Jonathan Edwards more accessible to churchgoers and any who may not be interested in reading lengthy, academic works pertaining to Edwards’s life and thought (all of these volumes check in at 160 pages). [...]

The Henry Center just announced the creation of a new Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. This new center is being established in conjunction with the JEC at Yale and will provide a wonderful opportunity for the furthering of Edwards scholarship. Congratulations to TEDS and Doug Sweeney for this achievement!
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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, [...]

I’m currently reading Doug Sweeney’s new book, Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word: A Model of Faith and Thought, and came upon this quite helpful description of the type of worship service that one could expect in an 18th century colonial American church. Sweeney describes,
After an Old Testament reading (usually at least [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wipf and Stock Publishers has released a new addition to their Jonathan Edwards Classic Studies Series, Jonathan Edwards and the Covenant of Grace by Carl W. Bogue.  Here’s the publisher’s description:
Twentieth century discussions of Edwards’ covenant theology frequently named a tension in the purity of Edwards’ Calvinism. Was his insistent teaching on the covenant of [...]

I’m currently working through Thomas Kidd’s recent work, The Great Awakening, and he broaches a question that I’ve often asked myself, but never really thought too deeply on.  That question is, “why do we remember Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?”  Of all the revival sermons that were preached in the various revival [...]

John Piper, founder of Desiring God Ministries and pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN, recently wrote a brief article extolling the laborious work of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.  Piper describes the meaning and great value in making the twenty-six print volumes of the Works of Jonathan Edwards, as well as [...]

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 [...]