Video and Interactive Visualization
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.
Zero to One
A Creative Leap from Zero to One and a Call for Papers
Streams and Wheels of Providence
“‘Tis because the providence of God is like a wheel, as a machine composed of wheels, having wheels in the midst of wheels…”
Edwards’s Brain on Original Sin
Visualized from WJE 1-26
New and True Life
The Marks of the Holy Spirit in Genuine Believers according to Jonathan Edwards in The Religious Affections, by Craig Biehl
Announcing: Visual Edwards Interactive Apps
“Heaven is a World of Love” and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—Playable in modern web browsers, Visual Edwards Interactive Apps provide a new approach to America’s Theologian: 3D and 2D visualizations with adjustable layout, reference links to The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online, and integrated auto-highlighting of WJEO text.
Topic Exploration in “The Excellency of Christ”
This video is an example of topic exploration in a text of Jonathan Edwards, in this case “The Excellency of Christ.”
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.