Jonathan Edwards's Writings

STEPHEN J. STEIN (1940–2022) was Chancellors' Professor of Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor of History, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He was a member of the Editorial Board of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, editor of volume 5 in that edition (Apocalyptic Writings) and author of The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers, which was awarded the Philip Schaff Prize in 1994 by the American Society of Church History.

"This book will take its place in libraries next to the finest works abou;this creative thinker." - Religious Studies Review "... gives a fine sense of the present state and the future direction of Edwards studies ... Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students." - Choice " ... this volume opens up new windows, not only on previously neglected texts of Jonathan Edwards, but on the larger cultural functions and effects of those texts." - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Stephen J. SteinPart I. Text: Integrating Unpublished Manuscripts and Public Texts1. Brides of Christ and Signs of Grace: Edwards's Sermon Series on the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. Eva Chamberlain2. Misrepresentations Corrected: Jonathan Edwards and the Regulation of Religious Discourse. Christopher Grasso3. The Deist Connection: Jonathan Edwards and Islam. Gerald R. McDermott4. The Other Unfinished "Great Work": Jonathan Edwards, Messianic Prophecy, and "The Harmony of the Old and New Testament." Kenneth P. MinkemaPart II. Context: Interpreting Texts and Identifying Influences5. "The Death of the Prophet Lamented": The Legacy of Solomon Stoddard. Paul R. Lucas6. The Godly Will's Discerning: Shepard, Edwards, and the Identification of True Godliness. William K. B. Stoever7. Did Berkeley Influence Edwards? Their Common Critique of the Moral Sense Theory. Ricahrd A.S. Hall8. Perception and Love in Religious Affections. Wayne ProudfootPart III. Interpretation: Identifying and Claiming the Edwardsian Tradition9. Nathaniel William Taylor and the Edwardsian Tradition: A Reassessment. Douglas A. Sweeney10. Oberlin Perfectionism and Its Edwardsian Origins, 1835-1870. Allen C. Guelzo11. "Reason for a Hope": Evangelical Women Making Sense of Late-Edwardsian Calvinism. Genevieve McCoy12. Edwards A. Park and the Creation of the New England Theology, 1840-1870. Joseph ConfortiContributorsIndex