Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Quest for Evangelical Enlightenment

Ryan P. Hoselton is Associate Pastor at Munich International Community Church and Visiting Scholar at Heidelberg University in Germany, where he taught religious history and historical theology from 2016-2023. He co-edited The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism (2022), and he is editing vol. 7 of the Biblia Americana (Matthew-Luke).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Spiritually Discerned.- Chapter 2. “Search the Scriptures; Search Your Experiences”: Reading the Bible Spiritually from the Reformation to Early Evangelicalism.- Chapter 3. “Experimental Christians”: Mather’s Philosophical and Biblical Vitalism.- Chapter 4. “Evangelical Illustrations”: Mather’s Experimental Exegesis.- Chapter 5. “Complex Spiritual Ideas”: Edwards, the Spiritual Sense, and Scripture.- Chapter 6. “It Wonderfully Enlightens”: Edwards’ Exegesis of Sensation.- Chapter 7. Conclusion./