Recently I asked Dr. Michał Choiński and Dr. Jan Rybicki, professors at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, if they would have time to give an interview about their recent Digital Humanities research in Edwards studies. They graciously agreed and granted JESociety a technically-rich peek into their research methods and findings.
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.
Eternal, Death, Annihilation: Visual Edwards Library
This is a map of Edwards’ mentions of Annihilate, Annihilated, Annihilates, Annihilating, Annihilation, Death, Deathbed, Deathbeds, Deathly, Deaths, Eternal, Eternally, and Eternals with their page locations in the Yale print edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26.
Blood Series: Visual Edwards Library
This series maps all of Edwards’ mentions of Blood, Bloodguiltiness, Bloodiness, Bloods, Bloodshed, Bloodthirstiness, Bloodthirsty, Bloody, Christ, Christed, Christless, Christlike, Christs, Filth, Filthily, Filthiness, Filthy, Injustice, Justice, Justices, Justifiable, Justification, Justified, Justifier, Justifies, Justifieth, Justify, Justifying, Sin, Sinful, Sinfully, Sinfulness, Sinless, Sinlessness, Sinned, Sinner, Sinners, Sinnest, Sinneth, Sinning, Sins, Unjustifiable, Unjustified, Unwashed, Wash, Washed, Washes, Washing, and Washings with their page locations in the Yale print edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26.
Angel, Mystery, Redemption: Visual Edwards Library
This is a map of Edwards’ mentions of Angel, Angelic, Angelical, Angels, Archangel, Archangels, Mysteries, Mysterious, Mysteriously, Mysteriousness, Mystery, Redeem, Redeemed, Redeemeds, Redeemedst, Redeemer, Redeemers, Redeemership, Redeeming, Redeems, Redemption, and Redemptions with their page locations in the Yale print edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26.
Excellence, Christ: Visual Edwards Library
This is a map of Edwards’ mentions of Antichrist, Antichrists, Christ, Christed, Christless, Christlike, Christs, Excell, Excelled, Excellence, Excellences, Excellencies, Excellency, Excellencys, Excellent, Excellently, Excellest, Excelleth, and Excelling with their page locations in the Yale print edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26.
Children, Conversion: Visual Edwards Library
This is a map of Edwards’ mentions of Child, Childbearing, Childbed, Childbirth, Childhood, Childish, Childishness, Childless, Childlike, Children, Childrens, Childs, Conversion, Conversions, Convert, Converted, Converter, Converteth, Converting, Converts, Grandchildren, Manchild, and Unconverted with their page locations in the Yale print edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26.
Free, Moral, Necessity: Visual Edwards Library
This is a map of Edwards’ mentions of Free, Freedom, Moral, Necessary, and Necessity with their page locations in the Yale print edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26.
Hell Series: Visual Edwards Library
This series maps all of Edwards’ mentions of Hell, Damnation, Degree, Eternity, Judgment, Justice, Misery, Punishment, and Torment. The maps include all word variations with their page locations in the Yale print edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26.
As it were, Types
The phrase AS IT WERE mapped to the word TYPE and all of its related forms in WJE 1-26: antitype, antitypes, antitypical, archetypal, archetype, archetypes, hypotyposes, hypotyposis, type, typed, types, typical, typically, typification, typified, typifies, typify, typifying