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 [...]

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 [...]