Jonathan Edwards’ Use of the Bible A Case Study (Genesis 32:22-32) with Comparisons

Abstract

The completion of the great critical edition of Jonathan Edwards’ Works from Yale University Press represents a signal academic achievement.  It also comes at a particularly propitious moment for the contemporary evangelical world.[1] The widespread availability of this edition, along with the world-wide network of newly established Jonathan Edwards Centers, have brought unprecedented clarity to Edwards as a historical figure and to his work as consequential for the present.  Together, the Yale edition, the Edwards Centers, and the boom in first-rate Edwards scholarship from around the world have reinforced Edwards’ reputation as the most accomplished philosophical theologian in American religious history.

[1] This article is revised from a lecture first presented on November 9, 2011, at the Jonathan Edwards Center, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL.  Comments and questions at that occasion were much appreciated.