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 ...

Stinson's book focuses on the life of Jonathan Edwards, his family, and the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, over two decades of the 18th century, including the years of the colonial revivals known ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...