The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

We are pleased to announce the publication on August 25, 2009 of the volumes 1, 2, and 4 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards by Yale University Press

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Three Volumes of The Works of Jonathan Edwards to be Published in a New Modern Paperback Edition

by Yale University Press

“The Jonathan Edwards Project is the first of its kind—a comprehensive, exhaustive effort to produce an online archive of all of Edwards’ sermons, treatises, letters and musings to serve the needs of anyone who cares to know the man. To date, no other university or institute has attempted to transcribe, computerize and then post online the complete works of any one historical figure. . . . Though he may never attain the rock-star status of George Washington,
with the Yale project, Edwards will live forever.”

—Adrian Brune, Hartford Courant

New Haven — Yale University Press is pleased to announce the publication on August 25, 2009 of volumes 1, 2, and 4 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards in a modern paperback edition for the first time.

Ken Minkema, Executive Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University says, “The reprinting of these key volumes of The Works of Jonathan Edwards in paperback will prove a real boon to the growing readership of Edwards around the world.”

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), pastor, revivalist, Christian philosopher, missionary, and college president, is widely regarded as North America’s greatest theologian.  These early volumes contain Edwards’s Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, and his revival tracts including A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, Distinguishing Marks of the Work of the Spirit of God, and Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival, along with classic introductions by Paul Ramsey, John E. Smith, and C.C. Goen. Among the best-selling volumes of the Yale Edwards Edition, and presenting many of Edwards’s most important and enduring treatises, these new paperback versions will make Edwards affordable and accessible to the many sorts of readers who continue to consult and study “America’s Theologian.”

About The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series:

The Works of Jonathan Edwards was initially conceived by renowned literary historian Perry Miller in 1953. Its aim was to publish a modern critical edition of Edwards’ published and unpublished works, issued in book form by Yale University Press. Twenty-six volumes, along with A Jonathan Edwards Reader (1995) and The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader (1999), have been released.

The Yale Edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards occupies a special place in the larger world of American scholarship. Over the past several decades it has emerged as the single most sustained, scholarly, editorial undertaking in the United States alongside the Founding Fathers papers projects. It is the only one of its scope in the field of American religious history.