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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| david W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney, editors. Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xxiii, 330. $59.95.
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| These sixteen essays by seventeen authors grew out of an international conference held in Miami in 2000 on the legacy of Jonathan Edwards. The authors assess Edwards's ministry, reflect on his influence in American culture, and explore the international response to his writings from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. Twelve of the essays, along with the editors' introduction, emphasize his continuing influence, especially in Great Britain and in the international missionary movement; four of the essayists place their accent on cultural realms that resisted Edwardsian themes. Editors David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney, who have attempted in earlier publications to measure the extent of an Edwardsian religious culture in America, argue—in opposition to earlier contentions that the tradition of Edwards suffered decline in the nineteenth century—that his legacy endured, both at home and abroad. |
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