JONATHAN EDWARDS (348 pp.)—Perry Miller—Sloane ($3.50). On the horizon back of Boston in 1740, there appeared a swirl of religious excitement no bigger than a preacher’s warning forefinger. A ...

In most biographies of Puritan theologian and preacher Jonathan Edwards, his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Tuttle, is a shadowy figure, a madwoman whose disruptive behavior marked her as the ...

The modern revival of interest in the Puritan pastor-philosopher Jonathan Edwards began with historian Perry Miller’s 1949 biography. In Miller’s telling, Edwards was a solitary genius in the ...

Two hundred years ago at Princeton, the ministry of Jonathan Edwards ended (March 22, 1758) in untimely death. He was and is considered to be one of the outstanding minds of American history. He ...

Introduction : theology and history -- Theology in colonial America -- The long life and final collapse of the Puritan canopy -- Republicanism and religion : the American exception -- Christian ...

“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he ...