the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards

American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition

Edited by

D. G. Hart

Sean Michael Lucas

and Stephen J. Nichols

©2003 by D. G. Hart, Sean Michael Lucas, and Stephen J. Nichols

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reformed Bible Conference (2001: Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Pa.)

The legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American religion and the evangelical tradition / edited by D. G. Hart, Sean Michael Lucas, and Stephen J. Nichols.

p. cm.

Conference held Oct. 26–28, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8010-2622-9 (pbk.)

1. Edwards, Jonathan, 1703–1758—Congresses. 2. Evangelicalism—United States—History—Congresses. I. Hart, D. G. (Darryl G.) II. Lucas, Sean Michael, 1970– III. Nichols, Stephen J., 1970– IV. Title.

BX7260.E3R44 2001

285.8′092—dc21

2002043712

For George S. Claghorn

Evangelical, Scholar, Mentor, Friend

Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword by Michael A. Rogers

Foreword by Samuel T. Logan, Jr.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Vision

1. Jonathan Edwards’ Tri-World Vision

—Harry S. Stout

2. Last of the Mohican Missionaries: Jonathan Edwards at Stockbridge

—Stephen J. Nichols

3. Driven by Passion: Jonathan Edwards and the Art of Preaching

—Richard A. Bailey

4. The “Inward, Sweet Sense” of Christ in Jonathan Edwards

—Charles Hambrick-Stowe

Part 2: Theology

5. Challenging the Presumptions of the Age: The Two Dissertations

—George M. Marsden

6. Open Theism in the Hands of an Angry Puritan: Jonathan Edwards on Divine Foreknowledge

—C. Samuel Storms

7. Jonathan Edwards on Apologetics: Reason and the Noetic Effects of Sin

—K. Scott Oliphint

8. Jonathan Edwards and the National Covenant: Was He Right?

—Gerald R. McDermott

Part 3: Legacy

9. Jonathan Edwards and the Origins of Experimental Calvinism

—D. G. Hart

10. Taylorites, Tylerites, and the Dissolution of the New England Theology

—Douglas A. Sweeney

11. “He Cuts Up Edwardsism by the Roots”: Robert Lewis Dabney and the Edwardsian Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century South

—Sean Michael Lucas

Part 4: Reflections

12. Transcribing a Difficult Hand: Collecting and Editing Edwards’ Letters over Thirty-Five Years

—George S. Claghorn

13. Jonathan Edwards between Church and Academy: A Bibliographic Essay

—Sean Michael Lucas

Index