The Jonathan Edwards Page

Jonathan Edwards Portrait

( 1703-1758 )


Major Works
A handy edition of at least a great part of Edwards' output is The Works of Jonathan Edwards. With a memoir by Sereno Dwight, Revised and corrected by Edward Hickman. Originally published in 1834. Reprint by Banner of Truth Trust, 1974. The first 230 pages are taken up with a memoir.
Narrative of Surprising Conversions ( 1736 ).
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ( 1741 ). His most famous work.
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ( 1746 ).
Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd ( 1749 ). Brainerd (1718-1747) was a missionary to the Indians.
A Farewell Sermon to the People of Northampton ( 1750 ).
A Careful and Strict Inquiry into the...Notions of...Freedom of Will ( 1754 ).
On Original Sin ( 1758 ).
Personal Narrative ( 1765 ).

About Edwards
David Levin, Jonathan Edwards: A Profile. , 1969.
Marsden, George M., Jonathan Edwards: A Life, Yale UP, 2003.
Biographical Sketch
Jonathan Edwards Page from PAL.
The Works of Jonathan Edwards from Yale U.
Jonathan Edwards from Island of Freedom.

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