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Book Review


Jonathan Edwards and the Bible. By Robert E. Brown. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xxiv, 292 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-34093-4.)
This book won the Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History. It is easy to understand why. It is a splendid work, full of insight and erudition, that helps us see Jonathan Edwards in a new light. Robert E. Brown begins with a point so obvious it has made scholars oblivious to it: much of Edwards's writing was about the Bible. Reattaching these writings to the Edwardsean corpus, Brown shows that biblical criticism was the heart of Edwards's theology, animating his epistemology, typology, eschatology, psychology, and philosophy of religion. . . .
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