Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 1. Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 1 Jonathan Edwards CH/TH614 (Jonathan Edwards) Fall Semester 2013 Dr. Garth M. Rosell, Instructor Tuesday Afternoons Considered by many to be America's most brilliant theologian, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was also a philosopher, a college president, a pastor, a revival preacher, a missionary to the Native Americans, a noted author (whose writings are known and read around the globe), the husband of a remarkable woman and the father of eleven children. Drawing primarily upon Edwards' own writings, this course will seek to explore the fascinating life and ministry of one of America's most influential figures. Each session will focus on at least one major aspect of Edwards' life and work and each session will examine at least one of Edwards' writings. Required Textbooks: George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-300-09693-3, paperback edition Stephen J. Stein, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-521-61805- 2, paperback edition. Jonathan Edwards, The Great Awakening, Volume 4: Works of Jonathan Edwards edited by C. C. Goen (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2009), ISBN 0-300-01437-6, paperback edition Wilson H. Kimnach, Kenneth P. Minkema, & Douglas Sweeney, eds., The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), ISBN 0-300-07768-8, paperback edition Stephen J. Nichols, ed., Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions and Advice to Young Converts (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2001). ISBN 0-87552-189-4, paperback edition. Course requirements: Students who are taking the course for credit are required to complete at least 2500 pages of reading (including the required textbooks); to write a 15-20 page research paper on one major aspect of Edwards' life and work (for example, Edwards' biblical exegesis, his work as a missionary, his interest in science, his pastoral ministry, etc.); to write a 5-7 page analysis of one of the following writings by Edwards: either (a) Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God; (b) A Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God; (c) The End for Which God Created the World; or (d) his Discourse on the Trinity; to write a list of twenty-five "resolutions" (similar to the 70 "resolutions" Edwards used to guide his life) and to take a final examination at the end of the course. Research Paper: Each student in the class will be asked to write a 15-20 page research paper on one major aspect of Edwards' life and work. Completed papers should be typed and in correct form (for example, double-spaced, using twelve-point font, footnoted where appropriate, with bibliography, etc.). Those who have not

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 2 had as much experience in writing research papers may want to consult a reliable style manual like Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). Students may also find it helpful to consult William Kelleher Storey, Writing History: A Guide for Students (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). These papers will be due no later than Friday, December 13th, at 4:00 p.m. Grading of the papers: Your research papers will be evaluated on the basis of three primary criteria: (1) the depth of the research in both primary and secondary materials; (2) the quality of the analysis/argument you present; and (3) the clarity, accuracy and beauty of the writing. Attention to these matters will not only help you on this paper assignment but it will also aid you in developing the kinds of skills you will be using in those various ministries to which God has called each one of you. Cheating and plagiarism: Please exercise special care in the use of sources. Institutional guidelines can be found in your Student Handbook under "Violations of Academic Integrity." As followers of Christ, we need to maintain the very highest standards of professional conduct. Analysis Paper: Each student in the class will be asked to write a 5-7 page analysis of one of the four key writings by Edwards listed above: describing its major arguments, pointing out its major strengths and weaknesses and indicating the key lessons it might have for contemporary readers. These papers will be due by no later than Friday, December 13th, at 4:00 p.m. Twenty-five Resolutions: A listing of "resolutions" (similar to those that Edwards used to guide his life). These resolutions will be due by the time of the class meeting on Tuesday, October 8th. Reading: Each student in the class will be asked to submit a brief annotated reading report of the 2500 pages of required reading they have completed for the class by no later than Friday, December 13th, at 4:00 p.m.. Grading of the reading will be as follows: 100%=A; 95-99%=A-; 90-94%=B+; 85-89%=B; 80--84%=B-; 75-79%=C+; 70-74%=C; 65-69%=C-; 60-64%=D+; 55-59%=D; 50-54%=D-; Below 50%=F. No credit is given for skimming. Puritan Prayers: Each class lecture will be opened with a prayer from Arthur Bennett, ed., The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2009). Late work and extensions: Late work (unless it has been permitted by the Registration Office through an official written extension form) will be penalized one full letter grade for each week (or any portion of a week) that the work is late.

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 3 Normally, the Registration Office only grants an extension in cases of serious illness and/or a death in the immediate family. Since most students have very busy schedules, it would not be fair for any instructor to grant one individual student a benefit that was not extended to all. In practical terms, this means that you will need to plan your semester carefully so as to complete all required work in a timely manner. Do not ask the instructor for an extension. Course Grading: Your final grade for the course will be computed as follows: Research Paper: 35% Analysis Paper: 25% Reading Report (2500 pages): 30% Twenty-five Resolutions 10% Grading scale: The seminary has adopted an official numerical equivalence for the letter grades that students are assigned. Published annually, these are as follows: A+=4.0; A=4.0; A-=3.7; B+=3.3; B=3.0; B-=2.7; C+=2.3; C=2.0; C-=1.7; D+=1.3; D=1.0; D-=0.7; F=0.0. "A" means "conspicuous excellence;" "B" means "exceeding the minimum;" "C" means "satisfactory" work; "D" means "passing" but "unsatisfactory;" and "F" means "course has been failed." Computation of course grade: Based on the above percentages and numerical equivalences, your grade for this course will be computed on the following scale: Final Point Total Final Grade 3.85 to 4.0 A 3.65 to 3.84 A- 3.3 to 3.64 B+ 3.0 to 3.29 B 2.7 to 2.99 B- 2.3 to 2.69 C+ 2.0 to 2.29 C 1.7 to 1.99 C- 1.3 to 1.69 D+ 1.0 to 1.29 D 0.7 to 0.99 D- 0.0 to 0.69 F In order to achieve a particular grade, the student must fall exactly within the above scale. No rounding-off is allowed. Resources for Jonathan Edwards: The most important resources for the study of Jonathan Edwards are The Works of Jonathan Edwards published by Yale University Press: Vol. I: Freedom of the Will; Vol. II: Religious Affections; Vol. III: Original Sin; Vol. IV: The Great Awakening; Vol. V: Apocalyptic Writings; Vol. VI: Scientific and Philosophical Writings; Vol. VII: David Brainerd; Vol. VIII: Ethical Writings; Vol. IX: History of the Work of Redemption; Vol. X: Sermons and Discourses, 1720-1723; Vol. XI: Typological Writings; Vol. XII: Ecclesiastical Writings; Vol. XIII: The "Miscellanies," a-500; Vol. XIV: Sermons and Discourses, 1723-1729; Vol. XV: Notes on Scriptures; Vol. XVI: Letters and Personal Writings; Vol. XVII: Sermons and

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 4 Discourses, 1730-1733; Vol. XVIII: The "Miscellanies," 501-832; Vol. XIX: Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738; Vol. XX: The "Miscellanies," 833-1152; Vol. XXI: Writings on the Trinity, Grace and Faith; Vol. XXII: Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742; Vol. XXIII: The "Miscellanies," 1153-1360; Vol. XXIV: The Blank Bible; Vol. XXV: Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758; Vol. XXVI: Catalogues of Reading. We will be using these materials throughout the course. The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University (along with its satellite centers in Poland, Germany, Australia, South Africa and at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School near Chicago) provides a treasure-trove of Edwards-related resources at its website <http://edwards.yale.edu/> Some of the Edwards materials can be downloaded to the "Kindle." Students might also wish to visit the websites for the Jonathan Edwards Institute (founded by Pedro Govantes, one of our seminary graduates) and/or The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals located at the Billy Graham Center on the campus of Wheaton College in Illinois. The two major repositories of Edwards materials are the Franklin Trask Library at Andover-Newton Theological Seminary in Newton Centre, Massachusetts and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. The latter houses nearly 1,200 manuscript sermons, most of the surviving Edwards manuscripts and the theological notebooks known as the "Miscellanies." Additional materials can be found in the resources listed below and in the bibliographies of the books we will be using for the class.

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 5 BRIEF CLASS SCHEDULE Overview Class I: September 10, 2013 Session I: "Introduction to the Study of Jonathan Edwards: His Life, Times and Literature;" Session II: "Jonathan Edwards' Puritan Heritage" Class II: September 17, 2013 Session III: "Jonathan Edwards' Pietist Heritage;" Session IV: "Jonathan Edwards' Early Life and Conversion" Class III: September 24, 2013 Session V: "Edwards on God's Two Books: Creation and Scripture;" Session VI: "Jonathan Edwards as Preacher" Class IV: October 1, 2013 Session VII: "Jonathan Edwards as Pastor;" Session VIII: "Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening" Class V: October 8 Session IX: "Edwards and Whitefield: Champions of Religious Revivals;" Session X: "Edwards and the Principles of Spiritual Renewal" List of 25 Resolutions are due by the class meeting today Possible on-site visit to "Old South" Presbyterian Church in Newburyport Reading Week I (October 14-18) No class but students are expected to use the time for reading and research Class VI: October 22, 2013 Session XI: "Edwards and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism;" Session XII: "Edwards on Work, Vocation and the Call of God" Class VII: October 29, 2013 Session XIII: "Jonathan Edwards and the Practice of Piety;" Session XIV: "Jonathan Edwards' Understanding of the Church" Student Presentations and Class Discussion Class VIII: November 5, 2013 Session XV: "Jonathan Edwards' Understanding of History;" Session XVI: "Jonathan Edwards as a Missionary" Student Presentations and Class Discussion Possible on-site visit to Tabernacle Congregational Church in Salem Reading Week II (November 11-15) No class but students are expected to use the time for reading and research Class IX: November 19, 2013 Session XVII: "Jonathan Edwards' Understanding of Theology;" Session XVIII: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Student Presentations and Class Discussion Class X: November 26, 2013 Session XIX: "Edwards on Beauty, Truth & Excellence;" Session XX: "Jonathan Edwards' Enduring Legacy"

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 6 Class XI: December 10, 2013: After working on your final analysis and research papers between November 26 and December 10 (no formal class session will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd), this final class session will be spent discussing your work. Your final work for the course will be due no later than Friday, December 13th, at 4:00 p.m. COMPLETE CLASS SCHEDULE Lecture I: Introduction to Jonathan Edwards: Life, Times and Literature This lecture provides both an introduction to the course and its requirements and a basic orientation to available resources for the study of Jonathan Edwards. Special attention is given to Edwards' "Diary," his "Personal Narrative" and his seventy "Resolutions." Signup sheets for class presentations will be circulated. Required reading: George M. Marsden's brief biographical sketch in Stephen J. Stein, A Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 19-38; Kenneth P. Minkema, "Personal Writings," in Stein, Cambridge Companion, pp. 39-60. Suggested reading: Gerald R. McDermott, ed., Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America's Theologian (New York: Oxford, 2009); Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1987); George M. Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008); Elizabeth D. Dodds, Marriage to a Difficult Man: The "Uncommon Union" of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1971); Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards (New York: Dell Publishing, 1949); Stephen J. Nichols, Jonathan Edwards: A Guided Tour of his Life and Thought (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2001); Sereno Edwards Dwight, The Life of President Edwards (New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830); Samuel Hopkins, The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New Jersey (Boston: S. Kneeland, 1765); James P. Byrd, Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008); George S. Claghorn, Jonathan Edwards Letters and Personal Writings, Vol. 16: Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998), especially Edwards' "Letters," "Resolutions," "Diary," and "Personal Narrative," pp. 741-804; M. X. Lesser, Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three Parts, 1729-2005 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007);

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 7 Sang Hyun Lee, ed., The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005). Rachel S. Stahle, The Great Work of Providence: Jonathan Edwards for Life Today (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010). Lecture II: Jonathan Edwards Puritan Heritage Required reading: George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), pp. xvii-xx, 1-24; David Hall, "The New England Background," in Stein, Cambridge Companion, pp. 69-79. Suggested reading: Alan Simpson, Puritanism in Old and New England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966); Leland Ryken, Visible Saints: The Puritans as they Really Were (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1986); John Coffey and Paul C. H. Lim, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); Francis J. Bremer, The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards, revised edition (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1976); Geoffrey F. Nuttall, Visible Saints (Oxford: Blackwell, 1957); Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1965); Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason, eds., The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004); Christopher Hill, Puritanism and Revolution (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997); Horton Davies, The Worship of the English Puritans (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 1997) and The Worship of the American Puritans (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 1999); Perry Miller, Errand Into the Wilderness (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956); Robert P. Martin, A Guide to the Puritans (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1997); Francis J. Bremer and Tom Webster, ed., Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2006); Christian History & Biography magazines, "The American Puritans" (issue 41); ""Jonathan Edwards" (issue 77); "Richard Baxter" (issue 89); "George Whitefield" (issue 38); and "Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening" (Vol. IV, No. 4).

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 8 Main Street, Northampton (1786) as drawn by Maitland de Gorgorza (taken from Stephen J. Nichols, ed., Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions and Advice (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2001), p. 7. Lecture III: Jonathan Edwards Pietist Heritage Suggested Reading: Philip Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1964); Richard F. Lovelace, The American Pietism of Cotton Mather (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1979); F. Ernst Stoeffler, Continental Pietism and Early American Christianity (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007); Carter Lindbert, ed., The Pietist Theologians (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005); Peter C. Erb, Pietists: Selected Writings (New York: Paulist Press, ' 1983); John R. Weinlick, Count Zinzendorf (Bethlehem, PA: The Moravian Church in America, 2001); Dale W. Brown, Understanding Pietism (Nappanee, IN: Evangel Publishing House, 1996); Katherine M. Faull, Moravian Women's Memoirs (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997); Peter Erb, tran., Johann Arndt: True Christianity (New York: Paulist Press, 1979). Alister E. McGrath, Reformation Thought: An Introduction, 3rd ed., (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1999. Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1988); Alister E. McGrath, A Life of John Calvin (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990); Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009); Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996); John T. McNeill, ed., Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vols. XX and XXI in the Library of Christian Classics (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960).

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 9 Lecture IV: Jonathan Edwards Early Life and Conversion Required Reading: Edwards, "God Glorified in the Work of Redemption," (1731), in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, pp. 66-82. George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, pp. 25-58. Recommended Reading: Josh Moody, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2007); J.E. Smith; H.S. Stout; and K.P. Minkema, eds., A Jonathan Edwards Reader (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995); John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Press, 1997); Amy Plantinga Pauw, "The Supreme Harmony of All:" The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002). Lecture V: Jonathan Edwards on God's Two Books: Creation and Scripture Required Reading: George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, pp. 59-81; Stephen J. Stein, "Edwards as a Biblical Exegete," in Stein, Cambridge Companion, pp. 181-195; and Stephen H. Daniel, "Edwards as Philosopher," in Stein, Cambridge Companion, pp. 162-180; Jonathan Edwards, "The Importance and Advantage of a Thorough Knowledge of Divine Truth" (1739) in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, pp. 26-48. Recommended Reading: Stephen J. Stein, ed., Jonathan Edwards "The Blank Bible," Parts I and II, Vol. 24 of the Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006); Stephen J. Stein, ed., Jonathan Edwards Notes on Scripture, Vol. 15 of the Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); Wallace E. Anderson, ed., Jonathan Edwards Scientific and Philosophical Writings (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980); Douglas A. Sweeney, "Edwards and the Bible," in Gerald R. McDermott, ed., Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America's Theologian (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 63-89; Kenneth P. Minkema, "The Harmony of the Old and New Testament," in Stephen J. Stein, ed., Jonathan Edwards's Writings (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), pp. 52-65; John H. Gerstner, The Rational Biblical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, 3 volumes (Powhatan, VA: Berea, 1991-1993); Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002); Douglas A. Sweeney, "Longing for More and More of It'? The Strange

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 10 Career of Jonathan Edwards's Exegetical Exertions," in Stout, Minkema and Maskell, eds., Jonathan Edwards at 300 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005), pp. 25-37. Lecture VI: Jonathan Edwards as a Preacher Required Reading: Wilson H. Kimnach, "Edwards as a Preacher" in Stein, Cambridge Companion, pp. 103-124 and 181-195; Wilson H. Kimnach, Kenneth P. Minkema, & Douglas A. Sweeney, eds., The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999). Recommended Reading: John H. Gerstner, Steps to Salvation: The Evangelistic Message of Jonathan Edwards (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960); Ralph G. Turnbull, Jonathan Edwards the Preacher (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1958); Wilson H. Kimnach, Caleb J. D. Maskell, and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds., Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: A Casebook New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010); John Carrick, The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2008); John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2004); Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002); Jonathan Edwards "Blank Bible" and "Notes on Scripture" (Volumes 24 and 15 in The Works of Jonathan Edwards); Wilson H. Kimnach, ed., Sermons and Discourses, 1720-1723; Kenneth P. Minkema, ed., Sermons and Discourses, 1723-1729; Mark Valeri, ed., Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733; M. X. Lesser, ed., Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738; Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, eds., Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742; and Wilson H. Kimnach, ed., Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758; in The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale University Press). Lecture VII: Jonathan Edwards as a Pastor Required Reading: Marsden, Jonathan Edwards, pp. 114-149. Recommended Reading: Patricia J. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth-Century Northampton (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1980) Horton Davies, The Worship of the American Puritans (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 1999); Douglas A. Sweeney, Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009). Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 11 Idea (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1963). Lecture VIII: Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening Required Reading: Jonathan Edwards, The Great Awakening, Vol. 4: The Works of Jonathan Edwards, edited by C. C. Goen (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009). Give particular attention to the fine introduction by C. C. Goen, pp. 1-95. Harry S. Stout, "Edwards as Revivalist," and Douglas A. Sweeney, "Evangelical Tradition in America," in Stein, Cambridge Companion, pp. 125-143 and 217-238. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards, pp. 150-238. Recommended Reading: Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1842); Alan Heimert and Perry Miller, eds., The Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and its Consequences (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs- Merrill Co., 1967); Thomas S. Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007); Leigh Eric Schmidt, Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001); Mark A. Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003); Edwin S. Gaustad, The Great Awakening in New England (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957). Bernard A. Weisberger, They Gathered at the River: The Story of the Great Revivalists and Their Impact Upon Religion in America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1958). Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society and Politics in Colonial America (New York: Oxford, 1986). Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Cambridge: Harvard, 1990). Charles H. Maxson, The Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1920). Wesley M. Gewehr, The Great Awakening in Virginia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1930). Lecture IX: Edwards and Whitefield: Champions of Religious Revivals Required Reading: Marsden, Jonathan Edwards, pp. 239-252 Recommended Reading: Elisabeth D. Dodds, Marriage to a Difficult Man: The 'Uncommon Union' of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1971);

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 12 George Whitefield's Journals and George Whitefield's Letters (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1992 and 1976); Harry S. Stout, The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1991); Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity:" George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994). Arnold A. Dallimore, George Whitefield: God's Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century (Wheaton: Crossways Books, 1990); Norman Pettit, ed., The Life of David Brainerd in The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); Charlotte Gordon, Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005); Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Family (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966). Jonathan and Sarah Edwards Lecture X: Jonathan Edwards and the Principles of Spiritual Renewal Recommended reading: "The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God" (Works of Edwards, Vol. 4, pp. 213-288); "Some Thoughts Concerning the present Revival of Religion in New England" (Works of Edwards, Vol. 4, pp. 290-530); Charles Chauncy, "Enthusiasm Described and Cautioned Against" and "Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion" (in Alan Heimert and Perry Miller, The Great Awakening (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967), pp. 228-256 and 291-304; "Some Letters Relating to the Revival" (Works of Edwards, Vol. 4, pp. 531-566; "Twelve Distinguishing Signs of Truly Gracious and Holy Affections" in John E. Smith, ed., Jonathan Edwards Religious Affections, Vol. 2 of the Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), pp. 193-461. Lecture XI: Jonathan Edwards and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism Recommended reading: Mark A. Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003); Alan Heimert and Perry Miller, eds., The Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and its Consequences (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co.,

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 13 1967). Douglas A. Sweeney, The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005). Leonard I. Sweet, ed., The Evangelical Tradition in America (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984) Garth M. Rosell, ed., The Evangelical Landscape: Essays on the American Evangelical Tradition (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1996). Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989). Garth M. Rosell, "A Speckled Bird: Charles G. Finney's Contribution to Higher Education," Fides et Historia (Summer 1993), pp. 55-74. George Marsden, The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience (New Haven: Yale, 1970) Ronald C. White, Louis B. Weeks and Garth M. Rosell, American Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986) Timothy L. Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2005). Donald W. Dayton, Discovering an Evangelical Heritage (New York: Harper and Row, 1976). David F. Wells and John D. Woodbridge, eds., The Evangelicals (Nashville: Abingdon, 1975) Lecture XII: Jonathan Edwards on Work, Vocation and the Call of God Lecture XIII: Jonathan Edwards and the Practice of Piety Recommended reading: Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1982) Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason, eds., The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2004); Lecture XIV: Jonathan Edwards Understanding of the Church Required Reading: Marsden, Jonathan Edwards, pp. 253-374 and Jonathan Edwards, "A Farewell Sermon," in Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, pp. 212-241. Recommended Reading: David D. Hall, ed., Jonathan Edwards Ecclesiastical Writings, Vol. 12: Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994), including Edwards' "An Humble Inquiry," "Misrepresentations Corrected," and "Narrative of Communion Controversy." John Wilson, ed., A History of the Work of Redemption, Vol. 9 in The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 14 Lecture XV: Jonathan Edwards Understanding of History Recommended reading: Avihu Zakai, Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003). Lecture XVI: Jonathan Edwards Understanding of Theology Required reading: E. Brooks Hollifield, "Edwards as Theologian," and Philip F. Gura, "Edwards and American Literature," in Stein, The Cambridge Companion, pp. 196-214, 144-161 and 262-279. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards, pp. 375-431. Recommended reading: Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) Conrad Cherry, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards: A Reappraisal (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990); James P. Byrd, Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008); Mark A. Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002); Sang Hyun Lee, ed., Jonathan Edwards Writings on the Trinity, Grace, and Faith, Vol. 21: Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003); Paul Ramsey, ed., Jonathan Edwards Ethical Writings, Vol. 8: Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989); William J. Danaher, The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004); Rachel S. Stahle, The Great Work of Providence: Jonathan Edwards for Life Today (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010); E. Brooks Hollifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003); Wallace E. Anderson, ed., Jonathan Edwards Scientific and Philosophical Writings, Vol. 6: Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, including the "Spider" Papers, "Natural Philosophy," and the "Mind;" Wallace E. Anderson and Mason I. Lowance, Jr., eds., Jonathan Edwards Typological Writings, Vol. 11: Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993), including "Images of Divine Things," "Types," and "Types of the Messiah." Louis J. Mitchell, Jonathan Edwards on the Experience of Beauty in Studies in Reformed Theology and History, New Series, No. 9 (Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary, 2003) and Louis J. Mitchell, "The Theological Aesthetics of Jonathan Edwards," in Theology Today (April 2007)/

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 15 Lecture XVII: Jonathan Edwards as a Missionary Recommended reading: Rachel M. Wheeler, To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast (Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press, 2008) Lecture XVIII: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Recommended reading: Jonathan Edwards, "'The Mind' and Related Papers," in Wallace E. Anderson, ed., Jonathan Edwards Scientific and Philosophical Writings, Vol. 6 in the Works of Jonathan Edwards, pp. 313-393 "Treatise on Grace" in Jonathan Edwards Writings on the Trinity, Grace and Faith, Vol. 21 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, edited by Sang Hyun Lee (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 153-311 Lecture XIX: Jonathan Edwards on Beauty, Truth & Excellence Lecture XX: Jonathan Edwards Enduring Legacy Required reading: Marsden, Jonathan Edwards, pp. 432-505; D. W. Bebbington, "The Reputation of Edwards Abroad," M. X. Lesser, "Edwards in 'American Culture,'" Stephen D. Crocco, "Edwards's Intellectual Legacy," and Ava Chamberlain, "Edwards and Social Issues," in Stein, Cambridge Companion, pp. 239-344. Recommended reading: D. G. Hart, Sean Michael Lucas and Stephen J. Nichols, eds., The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003); Josh Moody, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2006); John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., A God-Entranced Vision of All Things (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004); Selected Bibliography Excellent bibliographical resources can be found in our readings for the course and on the website for the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University <http://edwards.yale.edu/> Brown, Robert E. Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) Chai, Leon. Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) Cherry, Conrad. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards: A Reappraisal (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990) Conforti, Joseph A. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition & American

Jonathan Edwards Dr. Garth M. Rosell - 16 Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995) Danaher, William J. The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004) Daniel, Stephen H. The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine Semiotics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) Fiering, Norman Sanford Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981) Guelzo, Allen C. Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989) Gura, Philip F. Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical (New York: Hill & Wang, 2005) Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990) Hatch, Nathan O., and Harry S. Stout Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) Holifield, E. Brooks Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) Howe, Daniel W. Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) Jenson, Robert W. America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) Lee, Sang Hyun The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000) Lee, Sang Hyun, ed., The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) Lesser, M. X. Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three Parts, 1729-2005 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007) McClymond, Michael Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) Joody, Josh Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment: Knowing the Presence of God (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005) Pauw, Amy Plantinga "The Supreme Harmony of All": The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002) Smith, John Edwin Jonathan Edwards: Puritan, Preacher, Philosopher (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992) Stout, Harry S. The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) Stout, Harry S., Kenneth P. Minkema, and Caleb J. D. Maskell Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005) Sweeney, Douglas A., and Allen C. Guelzo The New England Theology: From Jonathan Edwards to Edwards Amasa Park (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006) Zakai, Avihu Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of History: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2001)