My interest in visualizing Jonathan Edwards dates back over 10 years to a time when I began studying Edwards’ “Images of Divine Things” as a theologically rich devotional resource. I shared some of that backstory last year in an interview with Matthew Everhard. This past summer I met with Joey Cochran, Assistant Director of the…
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.
h. DEATH OF A SAINT
A visualization of select keywords from “Miscellanies,” no. h. DEATH OF A SAINT.
Edwardseana, Fall 2017
The third annual issue of Edwardseana from the Edwards Center at TEDS is now available with great book reviews and events in the field of Jonathan Edwards Studies, including a feature story on JESociety (pp. 20–23). Download
Heathen and the Trinity
A visualization of Heathen and the Trinity in Edwards’ “Miscellanies,” nos. a-1360.
Prayer and Providence
Visualized below are the occurrences of and connections between Prayer and Providence in Edwards’ “Miscellanies,” nos. a-1360.
Why Visualize Jonathan Edwards?
The Works of Jonathan Edwards have been rightly hailed as a singular monument to America’s Theologian — “no comparable digital resource for an American religious figure exists.” But what remains to be done with this mountain of text? Mine it and discover the veins of its precious metals! This is a task for deep visualization….
Original Sin and the Miscellanies
The visualization below is a comparative analysis of Imputation and Sin in Edwards’ treatise on Original Sin and his “Miscellanies,” nos. a-1360.
a. OF HOLINESS
The visualization below is of “Miscellanies,” a. OF HOLINESS with keywords and their relationships to other occurences in the “Miscellanies.”
Christ, Comfort, Overcome, and World
The visualization below is of Christ, Comfort, Overcome, and World in the “Miscellanies” of Jonathan Edwards.