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.

Global Jonathan Edwards Congress 2020

The Global Jonathan Edwards 2020 Congress seeks to create academic space for a multidisciplinary discussion that retrieves and leverages the robust nature of Edwards’s insights into a religious experience that is both rational and spiritual for the benefit of the humanities, church, and society.

Edwards Workshop – Budapest, 2019

We would like to thank Professor Tibor Fabiny and the Jonathan Edwards Center Hungary for hosting “The Relevance of Jonathan Edwards Today.” We had a fantastic workshop with great presentations and lively round table discussions. Below are a few photos from the two-day event.

1450. Beautiful Bubbles

Visual Edwards video based on entries from Jonathan Edwards’ notebook Images of Divine Things and The Diary of David Brainerd

Of Wolves, Men & Original Sin

Visual Edwards video based on a passage from Jonathan Edwards’ treatise on Original Sin

Yale Conference Presentation of Visual Edwards

A presentation of Visual Edwards at a conference that brought together the directors of the international Edwards Center affiliates from around the world, along with prominent scholars and religious leaders, to assess the state of Edwards Studies and discern areas for future work.

Jonathan Edwards, Beauty & Younger Evangelicals

JESociety Press is pleased to announce the publication of Jonathan Edwards, Beauty, and Younger Evangelicals by Dr. Adam Newcomb Boyd Description: This book is written to explore the qualities of a healthy, biblical faith. Much of Jonathan Edwards’s work on the nature and inclination of our affections is obscured by difficult language and culturally distant…

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