This video is an example of topic exploration in a text of Jonathan Edwards, in this case “The Excellency of Christ.”
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.
Death and Comfort – Visual Edwards Interactive
Be therefore persuaded to think of your death and to consult your comfort [against] that time, and labor to get strength of grace. (WJE 14:275)
Crossing a Threshold
Those who are interested in the great American theologian Jonathan Edwards may find this of interest. Part of a long term collaborative publishing project to explore the cavernous notebooks of Edwards, the Visual Edwards Project aims to render Edwards’s thought structures into vibrant visualizations.
Topic Discovery in “A Divine and Supernatural Light”
Extracting topics from Edwards’s sermon . . . Scroll down for the clickable page references which link to The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online
The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companion: Vol. 2
Edited by Robert L. Boss and Sarah B. Boss, Foreword by Kenneth P. Minkema