Just Announced: A New Jonathan Edwards Center Established at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

January 12, 2010

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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JEahW Day 5: A Tour of Edwards and Great Awakening Sites

June 19, 2009

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 [...]

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JEahW Day 4: Edwards’s American and Global Legacies

June 18, 2009

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 [...]

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JEahW Day 3: The Beinecke Library

June 17, 2009

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 [...]

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JEahW Day 3: The Great Awakening

June 17, 2009

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 [...]

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JEahW Day 2: Edwards the Theologian

June 16, 2009

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 [...]

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Jonathan Edwards and his World (JEahW) Day 1: The Post-Reformation Era, Puritanism, and the Young Edwards

June 15, 2009

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. [...]

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aDaSL and Social Networking

June 9, 2009

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 [...]

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Jonathan Edwards and his World (June 14-19 at Yale Divinity School)

April 23, 2009

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 also [...]

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John Piper on the Works of Jonathan Edwards Online

February 18, 2009

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 [...]

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