Speaking of the Jonathan Edwards Center, they have just announced their own Facebook Fan Page. This site looks to be a one-stop shop for things pertaining not only to the center at Yale, but also the various satellite centers around the world. If you’re unaware of these other centers, the JEC at Yale has formed [...]
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! From: HCTU Director [...]
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 a mix of [...]
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 [...]
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 as [...]
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 the [...]
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 a typical [...]
Today was the first day of the week-long class, “Jonathan Edwards and his World,” led by the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University’s Ken Minkema and Adriaan Neele. The class has nine participants, the perfect size for this sort of thing, and is quite diverse in age and vocation, though all are men. Today was [...]
A couple of you have already discovered this, but I wanted to officially announce that, after much initial protest, A Divine and Supernatural Light is now on Twitter at aDaSLblog. So if you’d like to follow this blog by way of Twitter, just click the “follow me…” button at the top of the sidebar to [...]
The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University has just announced that they will again be offering the one-week course on Edwards this summer, June 14-19. At $400 (plus travel and lodging), the course is fairly inexpensive and there are a number of inexpensive housing options available as well. Here is the full info which can [...]
