Critical essays on Jonathan Edwards / [edited by] William J. Scheick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Original letter from President Edwards -- The case of Rev. Robert Breck / Ezra Hoyt Byington -- The impolitic Mr. Edwards: the personal dimension of the Reverend Breck affair / Charles Edwin Jones -- Sovereign God and reasoning man / Edward H. Davidson -- Jonathan Edwards as a great man: identity, conversion, and leadership in the great awakening / Richard L. Bushman -- On Edwards' An account of the life of the late Reverend M. David Brainerd / Ebenezer Frothingham -- On Edwards' An humble inquiry into the rules of the Word of God concerning the qualifications requisite to a compleat standing and full communion in the visible Christian church / Solomon Williams -- Jonathan Edwards / Leslie Stephen -- Conversion: nature and grace / Conrad Cherry -- The freedom of the will / Alexander V.G. Allen -- Jonathan Edwards / I. Woodbridge Riley -- Edwards, Locke, and the rhetoric of sensation

Jonathan Edwards: a new departure in eschatology / C.C. Goen -- A notebook on the apocalypse by Jonathan Edwards / Stephen J. Stein -- The grand design: Jonathan Edwards' History of the work of redemption / William J. Scheick -- Typology, millennial eschatology, and Jonathan Edwards / Mason I. Lowance -- The philosophical theologian / Alexander V.G. Allen -- The flying spider / David Scofield Wilson -- Jonathan Edwards / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Samuel Hopkins and the new divinity: theology, ethics, and social reform in eighteenth-century New England / Joseph A. Conforti -- Calvinsim romanticized: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Hopkins, and The minister's wooing / Lawrence Buell -- The artistry of Jonathan Edwards / Edwin H. Cady -- The art and instruction of Jonathan Edwards' Personal narrative / Daniel B. Shea -- The brazen trumpet: Jonathan Edwards' conception of the sermon / Wilson H. Kimnach -- Jonathan Edwards: textuality and the language of man / Wayne Lesser.