John H. Arm­strong com­ments on Jonathan Edwards and the schol­ar­ship of Ger­ald McDer­mott and Michael McClymond. For many years I thought that I under­stood Edwards well enough, hav­ing lis­tened to second-​​hand opin­ions from var­i­ous preach­ers who quoted his work. I had read some of...
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The sec­ond great event in sal­va­tion his­tory that trans­forms the con­sti­tu­tion of heaven is the ulti­mate escha­to­log­i­cal con­sum­ma­tion of all things, after the gen­eral res­ur­rec­tion, the gen­eral judg­ment, and the grand entry of Christ and all the res­ur­rected saints into the upper world.1 Such...
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My paper is an excerpt from chap­ter nine of my unpub­lished novel, Spi­der in a Tree, the story of Jonathan Edwards’s years in Northamp­ton from 1731 to 1750.  This is a fic­tional account of the famous “Sin­ners in the Hands of an Angry God”...
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The beauty of heaven is not only dis­cerned syn­chron­i­cally in the struc­ture of heaven’s soci­ety, but also diachron­i­cally in its unfold­ing his­tory. Accord­ing to Edwards, heaven’s his­tory pro­gresses as God’s attrib­utes shine forth more bril­liantly ad extra. The more heaven par­tic­i­pates in God’s attrib­utes,...
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“Writ­ten by experts but designed for the novice; accu­rate, con­cise, and witty overviews of some of the most pro­found moments and the­olo­gians in church his­tory.” This is James Byrd’s, Jonathan Edwards for Arm­chair The­olo­gians. A fine con­tri­bu­tion to both the Arm­chair series and...
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One of the fea­tured speak­ers at “Jonathan Edwards for the New Mil­len­nium” will be Avihu Zakai, Pro­fes­sor of early mod­ern his­tory and early Amer­i­can his­tory at the Hebrew Uni­ver­sity of Jerusalem. I recently pur­chased Pro­fes­sor Zakai’s lat­est book, Jonathan Edwards’s Phi­los­o­phy of Nature: The...
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