“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.
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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.
Spiritual Sense
For if there be in the saints a kind of apprehension or perception, which is in its nature, perfectly diverse from all that natural men have … it consists in the sensations of a new spiritual sense, which the souls of natural men have not …
Edwards on “Infused Habits”
Beginning with a notebook entry on “Infused Habits,” then drilling into the Edwards corpus with Visual Edwards software…
Sage Advice on Digital Humanities
Continue to acquaint yourselves with the latest advances and applications in digital humanities. I was a member of that transitional generation that, in less than two decades, went from paper and pen to manual typewriter to electric typewriter to computer, so understanding the digital world did not come naturally. — Ken Minkema
Inspiration for Visual Edwards
The following quotes from Thomas Schafer’s introduction to WJE volume 13 The “Miscellanies” are the inspiration for creating Visual Edwards, a tool that opens up in a new way the matrix of connections in Edwards’s writings.