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 is the [...]

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 these [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]