Category: The Visual Jonathan Edwards

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.

Jonathan Edwards Meets Early Church Fathers

Visual Edwards software can now compare the 26 volume Yale edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards with the 37 volumes of Ante-Nicene and Post-Nicene Early Church Fathers. Create one search profile for all corpora and then visualize. Quickly generate volume/page references. Zoom, markup, annotate, animate, and more.