Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award for Theology/EthicsScholars and laypersons alike regard Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) as North America's greatest theologian. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards is the most comprehensive survey of his theology yet produced and the first study to make full use of the recently-completed seventy-three-volume online edition of the Works of Jonathan Edwards. The book's forty-five chapters examine all major aspects of Edwards's thought and include in-depth discussions of the extensive secondary literature on Edwards as well as Edwards's own writings. Its opening chapters set out Edwards's historical and personal theological contexts. The next thirty chapters connect Edwards's theological loci in the temporally-ordered way in which he conceptualized the theological enterprise-beginning with the triune God in eternity with his angels to the history of redemption as an expression of God's inner reality ad extra, and then back to God in eschatological glory.The authors analyze such themes as aesthetics, metaphysics, typology, history of redemption, revival, and true virtue. They also take up such rarely-explored topics as Edwards's missiology, treatment of heaven and angels, sacramental thought, public theology, and views of non-Christian religions. Running throughout the volume are what the authors identify as five basic theological constituents: trinitarian communication, creaturely participation, necessitarian dispositionalism, divine priority, and harmonious constitutionalism. Later chapters trace his influence on and connections with later theologies and philosophies in America and Europe. The result is a multi-layered analysis that treats Edwards as a theologian for the twenty-first-century global Christian community, and a bridge between the Christian West and East, Protestantism and Catholicism, conservatism and liberalism, and charismatic and non-charismatic churches.

Part One: Introduction: Historical, Cultural, and Social ContextsChapter One: Overture to a SymphonyChapter Two: Jonathan Edwards: A Theological LifeChapter Three: Edwards's Intellectual ContextChapter Four: Edwards's SpiritualityChapter Five: The Question of Development: Did Edwards Change?Part Two: Topics in Edwards's TheologySection One: Methods and StrategiesChapter Six: Beauty and AestheticsChapter Seven: MetaphysicsChapter Eight: Typology: Scripture, Nature, and All of RealityChapter Nine: Revelation: Scripture, Tradition, and ReasonChapter Ten: ApologeticsChapter Eleven: Biblical ExegesisChapter Twelve: The Concept of a History of RedemptionSection Two: The Triune God, the Angels, and HeavenChapter Thirteen: God as Trinity: Father, Son, and SpiritChapter Fourteen: The End of God in CreationChapter Fifteen: Providence and HistoryChapter Sixteen: The Person and Work of Jesus ChristChapter Seventeen: The Role of the Holy SpiritChapter Eighteen: The Angels in the Plan of SalvationChapter Nineteen: Heaven is a World of LoveSection Three: Theological Anthropology and Divine GraceChapter Twenty: The Affections and the Human PersonChapter Twenty-one: Edward's Calvinism and Theology of the CovenantsChapter Twenty-two: Free Will and Original SinChapter Twenty-three: Salvation, Grace, and Faith: An OverviewChapter Twenty-four: Conversion: A Divine and Supernatural LightChapter Twenty-five: Justification and SanctificationChapter Twenty-six: The Theme of DivinizationChapter Twenty-seven: The Theology of RevivalsSection Four: Church, Ethics, Eschatology, and SocietyChapter Twenty-eight: The ChurchChapter Twenty-nine: Edwards On (and In) the MinistryChapter Thirty: The Sacraments: Baptism and the Lord's SupperChapter Thirty-one: The Voice of the Great God: A Theology of PreachingChapter Thirty-two: Public Theology, Society, and AmericaChapter Thirty-three: True Virtue, Christian Love, and Ethical TheoryChapter Thirty-four: Edwards On (and In) MissionsChapter Thirty-five: EschatologyChapter Thirty-six: Christianity and Other ReligionsPart Three: Legacies and Affinities: Edwards's Disciples and InterpretersChapter Thirty-seven: Selective Readings: Edwards and the New DivinityChapter Thirty-eight: Mixed Reactions: Princeton and Andover Seminaries, and Nineteenth-Century American CultureChapter Thirty-nine: New Beginnings: The Twentieth Century Recovery of Edwards's TheologyChapter Forty: Interpretations, I: Edwards and Modern PhilosophyChapter Forty-one: Interpretations, II: Edwards and the Reformed TraditionChapter Forty-two: Interpretations, III: Edwards and the Revival TraditionChapter Forty-three: Interpretations, IV: Edwards and the Catholic and Orthodox TraditionsChapter Forty-four: Interpretations, V: Edwards and Contemporary TheologyChapter Forty-five: Conclusion: Edwards as a Theological BridgeIndex