The Other Jonathan Edwards

A judicious and well-timed collection of primary sources, introduced well, which reveals for students, general readers, and interested Christian laity 'the other Jonathan Edwards,' that is, the one whose life was dedicated to sharing the love of God, preaching social justice prophetically, and promoting peace, harmony, and the welfare of the needy in his own local communities and the eighteenth-century Anglo-American world.'—Douglas Sweeney, author of Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
'Theologian McDermott, a well-known Edwards scholar with no less than five major books on this most renowned of America's theologians, and historian Ronald Story, most recently author of the acclaimed Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), have teamed up in this little gem of a book to expand on a portrait of Edwards that is little known, and often overlooked. Herein are windows into Edwards as a social, if not public theologian (a topic on which McDermott first cut his scholarlyteeth three decades ago when he wrote one of the first dissertations and then books on this aspect of Edwards' thought), albeit approached from the perspective of Edwards as a reacher and even philosopher of the common good.'—International Journal of Public Theology
'The editors' introduction to Edwards's ministerial and literary career is worth the price of the book. Highly recommended.'—Choice
'The Other Jonathan Edwards provides a rich resource for exciting interest in eighteenth-century New England life. Professors McDermott and Story have selected writings of Edwards that present him in his role as an idealistic moralist. This Edwards can be studied as one of the great moral philosophers in the golden age of moral philosophy.'—Early American Literature