Jonathan Edwards at Home
and Abroad
Historical Memories, Cultural Movements,
Global Horizons
Edited by David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney
In this major contribution to the study of one of America’s best-known and most-imposing
religious figures, fifteen scholars offer a sustained analysis of Jonathan Edwards’s historical
lega cy throughout the world. The first collection of essays to focus primarily on Edwards’s
lasting influence, Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad is also the only volume to date to
focus on the enduring effects of his writings worldwide. This collection moves the discussion beyond the borders of the United States and considers Edwards’s impact on the larger
world.
Although Edwards’s corpus and personality have received considerable scholarly attention in the United States, the contributors recognize that attention to the continuing significance of his life and ministry in this country and elsewhere lags behind. These scholars
examine the reach of Edwards’s writings, his roles as a clerical and intellectual exemplar, his
influence outside the world of religion, and the appropriation and reappropriation of his
remarkably resilient cultural authority. They trace the convergence of these developments
into discern i ble intellectual and ecclesiastical movements.
In surveying Edwards’s domestic influence, the contributors illustrate how his life and
American lega cy continue to generate innovative scholarship that has moved beyond
intellectual history. They bring into clear view Edwards’s influence on discussions of sex,
p r o p erty rights, the salvation of children, and the status of African Americans in nineteenthcentury America.
In taking the measure of Edwards’s global impact, the contributors look into Edwards’s
influence on theological developments in England and Scotland, on the bu rgeoning miss i o n a ry movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and on people
throughout the world who have encountered his writings, now translated into Germ a n ,
French, Dutch, Swedish, Welsh, Gaelic, Arabic, Choctaw, Chinese, and Korean. Their conclusion is that Edwards’s legacy is momentous, abroad as well as at home.
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DAVID W. KLING holds a Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago. An associate professor
of religious studies at the University of Miami
in Florida, Kling lives in Miami.
DOUGLAS A. SWEENEY holds a Ph.D.
from Vanderbilt University. He is an associate
professor and chair of the Department of
Church History and the History of Christian
Thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School in Deerfield, Illinois. Sweeney lives in
Lindenhurst, Illinois.
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