The collection consists of writings, correspondence, documents, printed materials, photographs, and artifacts documenting the lives and work of Jonathan Edwards and his family. Jonathan Edwards' papers contain the great majority of his surviving manuscripts. These include over one thousand sermons; private theological and philosophical notebooks, including the nine volume "Miscellanies" and four volume "Notes on the Scripture;" Edwards'interleaved Bible. In addition, there is a box of Jonathan Edwards' correspondence; principal correspondents include Joseph Bellamy and Thomas Foxcroft. Other Edwards family papers include several of Timothy Edwards's sermon notebooks; correspondence belonging to Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801), Jonathan Walter Edwards, and Hannah Edwards Wetmore (principal correspondents are Calvin Chapin, Moses Tryon, Joseph Bellamy, Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey and Chauncey Whittelsey); printed material (chiefly numerous family Bibles) and a broadside Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington dated October 1789; photographs of Edwards family members; and papers relating to the history of the collection.
The collection consists of the great majority of Edwards' surviving manuscripts including over one thousand sermons, private theological and philosophical notebooks, correspondence, printed materials, and artifacts. Currently, only a portion of the Jonathan Edwards Collection is available online.
Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Dr. Kenneth Minkema from Yale University and Oshea Davis. An interview on "God's Unspeakable Gift" of February 11, 2011 hosted by Dann @ weknowradio.net.
Dr. Kenneth Minkema on WDTK am1400 "Intelligent Talk Radio." An interview of February 13, 2009 on The Paul Edwards Program.
Kenneth Minkema, Executive Editor, Works of Jonathan Edwards
Videos: (Quicktime, 700k each)
1) Why the Jonathan Edwards Center?
2) What would Jonathan Edwards think about the JEC?
3) On the challenges of transcription
4) The completion of the print edition
5) Advantages of the Works of Jonathan Edwards Online
6) Two versions of Edwards documents
7) International Edwards Conference Budapest 2007
Caleb Maskell, Assistant Editor, Works of Jonathan Edwards
Video: The Blank Bible,
edited by Stephen J. Stein was released in August 2007 to much fanfare
and excitement. This remarkable verse-by-verse notebook on the King
James Bible is a treasure trove of insight into Edwards' exegesis that
has never before been published. The painstaking work of Stephen Stein
has at last brought this work to press.
The publication of the Blank Bible also marks the third and final installment of Stephen Stein's immeasurable editorial contribution to the Works of Jonathan Edwards series. Stein has edited Apocalyptic Writings (Vol. 5), Notes on Scripture (vol. 15), and now the Blank Bible
(Vol. 24), making him the most frequent contributor to the development
of textual resources on Edwards' scriptural exegesis. We are very
grateful for his sterling service.
Professor John Smith, Yale University, General Editor, Works of Jonathan Edwards 1964-1992.
"That One Sermon"
"Perspective on Jonathan Edwards"
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