Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University.
Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the US at Heidelberg University.

• List of Contributors


• Introduction


• Part I: Edwards' Backgrounds, Sources, and Contexts


• 1: Ava Chamberlain: Family Life


• 2: Harry S. Stout: Parish Ministry


• 3: George Marsden: Historical and Ecclesiastical Contexts


• 4: David W. Kling: Edwards in the Context of International Revivals and Missions


• 5: Peter J. Thuesen: Sources of Edwards' Thought


• Part II: Edwards' Intellectual Labours


• 6: William J. Wainwright: Ontology


• 7: Paul Helm: Epistemology


• 8: Kyle C. Strobel: The Nature of God and the Trinity


• 9: S. Mark Hamilton: The Person of Christ


• 10: Robert W. Caldwell III: Pneumatology


• 11: Stephen R. C. Nichols: Revelation


• 12: Wim van Vlastuin: Federalism and Reformed Scholasticism


• 13: Phillip Hussey and Michael McClymond: Creation and Predestination


• 14: Jan Stievermann: History, Providence, and Eschatology


• 15: David P. Barshinger: Sin and Evil


• 16: Seng-Kong Tan: Anthropology, Affections, and Free Will


• 17: Rhys Bezzant: Ecclesiology and Sacraments


• 18: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran: Ethics


• 19: William Dyrness and Christi Wells: Aesthetics


• 20: Kathryn Reklis: Imagination and Hermeneutics


• 21: Avihu Zakai: The Natural Sciences and Philosophy of Nature


• 22: Sebastian Rehnman: Divine Idealism and Etiology


• Part III: Edwards' Religious and Social Practices


• 23: Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe: Spirituality and Devotion


• 24: Robert E. Brown: Biblical Exegesis


• 25: Kenneth P. Minkema: Writing and Preaching Sermons


• 26: Esmari Potgieter: Education


• 27: John A. Grigg: Missions


• 28: John Saillant: Ministry to the Enslaved


• 29: Mark Valeri: Politics and Economics


• Part IV: Edwards' Global Reception


• 30: James P. Byrd: North America


• 31: Jonathan Yeager: Britain and Europe


• 32: Sandra M.Gustafson: Edwards' Place and Importance in Anglo-American Literature


• 33: Dongsoo Han: Asia


• 34: Stuart Piggin: Australia


• 35: Adriaan C. Neele: Africa


• 36: Heber Carlos de Campos, Jr.: Latin America


• 37: Douglas A. Sweeney: Edwards Studies Today

This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Jonathan Edwards by a diverse, international, and inter-disciplinary group of active Edwards scholars.