Visual Edwards software can now compare the 26 volume Yale edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards with the 37 volumes of Ante-Nicene and Post-Nicene Early Church Fathers. Create one search profile for all corpora and then visualize. Quickly generate volume/page references. Zoom, markup, annotate, animate, and more.
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 Resurrection
Death and resurrection—the two concepts are deeply intertwined in the Christian psyche. They form the final structure to the storyline of Jesus Christ in the four gospels; they saturate the apostolic teaching in the New Testament; and early Christian creeds witness to the fact that although human beings die, the Church from its earliest days…
Happiness, capacity, proportion
“Miscellanies,” no. 5. HEAVEN. There is no more reason why it should be a damp to the happiness of some in heaven that others are happier, than that their happiness should be damped by barely a possibility of greater happiness, supposing them to be all equal…
.VJE file format and other Visual Edwards Updates
Visual Edwards update: The project now saves and imports data in its own file format: .vje (which stands for Visual Jonathan Edwards).
Intro to Visual Edwards, Part 2
Video Introduction, Part 2: A 12 minute video which introduces the software and demonstrates the process of building a visualization from an Edwards phrase.
Visual Edwards Library now 450+
I am happy to announce that the Visual Edwards Library has now grown to over 450 visualizations. The base set of 456 visualizations parallels Edwards’ Table to the “Miscellanies.” Key terms from each table entry were used to create visualizations spanning all 26 volumes of the Yale letterpress edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards.
Holiness is Beautiful and Sweet
“Miscellanies,” no. a. OF HOLINESS. “Holiness is a most beautiful and lovely thing. We drink in strange notions of holiness from our childhood, as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour and unpleasant thing; but there is nothing in it but what is sweet and ravishingly lovely.”
Regeneration, Revival, & Creation
This is an excellent volume issuing from the inaugural conference of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Gateway Seminary. Big thanks to Chris Chun and Kyle Strobel for their oversight and editorial efforts!
Visual Edwards Library is Live
The Visual Edwards Library is an online resource with a growing number of visualizations created with Visual Edwards software. Users of the Windows software have the option of instantly publishing their maps of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vols. 1-26 in the online Library.