if not all of them are found in the theology of revival adumbrated by the great Jonathan Edwards, of whom Perry Miller truly said: ‘Puritanism is what Edwards was’.6 I have maintained elsewhere that the understanding of revival embedded in the writings of Edwards’ thirties is the most important single contribution that Edwards has to make to evangelical theology today, and remains the classical treatment of its subject;7 but this is beyond my scope now. For more than two centuries, since Daniel