Six articles from two issues, 2003 to 2023
Princeton was founded in 1746 by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen bound together by what they called spiritual friendship. Longfield traces that brotherhood through Belcher and Edwards into the eighteenth-century awakening, and asks what kept the network theologically coherent across distance and time.
What does a pastor and thinker born 300 years ago have to say to the church now? Stephen Crocco sketches the life of Jonathan Edwards from East Windsor to Princeton and traces how his reputation fell and then rose again.
How should pastors pray for renewal, and how will they know it when it comes? Charles Hambrick-Stowe draws five lessons from Jonathan Edwards for church leaders today: persistence, humility, piety, theology and holiness.
What if beauty is a person before it is a quality? Louis Mitchell follows Jonathan Edwards from the harmony of a symphony to the life of the Trinity, and shows why for Edwards a saving experience of God is an experience of beauty.
Did reason alone, as the deists claimed, show humanity the truth about God? Gerald McDermott follows Jonathan Edwards’s argument that fallen reason fails without revelation, and explains why he defended the Bible against the deists.
Was Jonathan Edwards an opponent of the Enlightenment or a child of it? Mark Valeri reviews recent books on Edwards, from Marsden and Zakai to Pauw and Holmes, and asks what he can still teach about faith and modernity.
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