On July 8, 1741, at the First Church of Christ in Enfield, Massachusetts (Enfield, Connecticut today), Jonathan Edwards delivered perhaps the most famous sermon in American history. For good or ill (mostly ill, in my opinion), Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God has been cast as the archetypal 18th century Puritan sermon, sometimes [...]

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 still very [...]

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 [...]