Author: Rob Boss

Rob Boss, (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Director of JESociety. He has research interests in the early modern period, eighteenth-century Evangelical spiritual awakenings, and the creative early Evangelical theologians John Bunyan, Benjamin Keach, and Jonathan Edwards and their devotional view of the world. Boss is actively developing a system to visually analyze the writings of Jonathan Edwards. His recent books and contributions include The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companion, volumes 1, 2, and 3 (JESociety Press, 2018, 2021, 2023), Regeneration, Revival, and Creation: Religious Experience and the Purposes of God in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards (Wipf and Stock, 2020), New England Dogmatics: A Systematic Collection of Questions and Answers in Divinity by Maltby Gelston (1766-1865) (Wipf and Stock, 2019) with Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton, and God-Haunted World: The Elemental Theology of Jonathan Edwards (JESociety Press, 2015). Boss is enthusiastic about upcoming collaborative projects which will demonstrate the continued relevance of Edwards’ fruitful theology.

VISUAL EDWARDS Page Finder

A simple Windows program to help researchers navigate VISUAL EDWARDS and look up the page references to the Works of Jonathan Edwards Online. View video demo below to see how it works.

Bright Shadows: God the Holy Spirit

God the Holy Spirit is the fifth in the Bright Shadows series of interactive videos which explores Jonathan Edwards’ notebook “Images of Divine Things.” The clickable elements that occasionally appear contain comments and links to entries in Edwards’ notebook.

Concert of Prayer for Those Affected by COVID-19

Dr. Tibor Fabiny at Károli Gáspár University recently posed the question, “How/what would Edwards preach now?” Dr. Fabiny observes that “In such times of trial, Edwards’ “concert of prayer” could help our virus-infected world.”

Bright Shadows: God the Son

God the Son is the fourth in the Bright Shadows series of interactive videos which explores Jonathan Edwards’ notebook “Images of Divine Things.” The clickable elements that occasionally appear contain comments and links to entries in Edwards’ notebook.

Bright Shadows: God the Father

God the Father is the third in the Bright Shadows series of interactive videos which explores Jonathan Edwards’ notebook “Images of Divine Things.” The clickable elements that occasionally appear contain comments and links to entries in Edwards’ notebook.

Bright Shadows: Trinity

Trinity is the second in the Bright Shadows series of interactive videos which explores Jonathan Edwards’ notebook “Images of Divine Things.” The clickable elements that occasionally appear contain comments and links to entries in Edwards’ notebook.

Bright Shadows: Revelation

Revelation is the first in the Bright Shadows series of interactive videos which explores Jonathan Edwards’ notebook “Images of Divine Things.” The clickable elements that occasionally appear contain comments and links to entries in Edwards’ notebook.

Bright Shadows: Interactive Video Series

Announcing the launch of Bright Shadows: Interactive Video Series, part of the Visual Edwards project. The interactive video series builds upon the book Bright Shadows of Divine Things: The Devotional World of Jonathan Edwards.