“Heaven is a World of Love” and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—Playable in modern web browsers, Visual Edwards Interactive Apps provide a new approach to America’s Theologian: 3D and 2D visualizations with adjustable layout, reference links to The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online, and integrated auto-highlighting of WJEO text.
Author: Rob Boss
Rob Boss, (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Director of JESociety. He has research interests in the early modern period, eighteenth-century Evangelical spiritual awakenings, and the creative early Evangelical theologians John Bunyan, Benjamin Keach, and Jonathan Edwards and their devotional view of the world.
Boss is actively developing a system to visually analyze the writings of Jonathan Edwards. His recent books and contributions include The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companion, volumes 1, 2, and 3 (JESociety Press, 2018, 2021, 2023), Regeneration, Revival, and Creation: Religious Experience and the Purposes of God in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards (Wipf and Stock, 2020), New England Dogmatics: A Systematic Collection of Questions and Answers in Divinity by Maltby Gelston (1766-1865) (Wipf and Stock, 2019) with Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton, and God-Haunted World: The Elemental Theology of Jonathan Edwards (JESociety Press, 2015). Boss is enthusiastic about upcoming collaborative projects which will demonstrate the continued relevance of Edwards’ fruitful theology.
Topic Exploration in “The Excellency of Christ”
This video is an example of topic exploration in a text of Jonathan Edwards, in this case “The Excellency of Christ.”
Death and Comfort – Visual Edwards Interactive
Be therefore persuaded to think of your death and to consult your comfort [against] that time, and labor to get strength of grace. (WJE 14:275)
Crossing a Threshold
Those who are interested in the great American theologian Jonathan Edwards may find this of interest. Part of a long term collaborative publishing project to explore the cavernous notebooks of Edwards, the Visual Edwards Project aims to render Edwards’s thought structures into vibrant visualizations.
Call for Papers: The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companion, Volume 3 [Closed]
Call for Submissions Students and scholars are now invited to contribute essays for publication in The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companion, Volume 3, Foreword by Rhys Bezzant, Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Australia, Senior Lecturer, Ridley College, Melbourne. Click here for the previous Miscellanies Companions. Participants in this project must have at minimum a master’s…
Topic Discovery in “A Divine and Supernatural Light”
Extracting topics from Edwards’s sermon . . . Scroll down for the clickable page references which link to The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online
The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companion: Vol. 2
Edited by Robert L. Boss and Sarah B. Boss, Foreword by Kenneth P. Minkema
The Forgotten Edwards
The “other” Jonathan Edwards has never received the attention his work as New Haven pastor, dedicated theologian, and interpreter of his famous father’s legacy deserves…this carefully researched book goes a long way to redress that undeserved neglect. —Mark Noll
Jonathan Edwards and World Mission
…this book makes a fresh contribution by insightfully amalgamating these two dimensions—analyzing Edwards as a theologian of world mission. Adam Cavalier’s innovative missional emphasis on familiar treatises such as, The End for Which God Created the World, Original Sin, Freedom of the Will, An Humble Attempt, and Religious Affections makes not only for a fascinating read but an inspiring one as well.