| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

"The Supreme Harmony of All": The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards. By Amy Plantinga Pauw. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. x, 196 pp. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-8028-4984-9.)

Like many colonial New England ministers but far more methodically than most, Jonathan Edwards kept a theological diary throughout his career. Known as the "Miscellanies," this massive series of numbered theological notes has been pivotal to the interpretation of Edwards's thought at least since Perry Miller's seminal biography of 1949. In "The Supreme Harmony of All," Amy Plantinga Pauw, professor of doctrinal theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, extends this interpretive strategy to Edwards's doctrine of the trinity. Although the trinity was not an especially prominent theme in Edwards's preaching or writings published during his lifetime, Pauw effectively argues that Edwards imaginatively explored this classic point of Christian doctrine in his "Miscellanies" and that the trinitarian ruminations in those notebooks illuminate central philosophical, theological, and pastoral themes in the wider body of his work. Indeed, Pauw further proposes, the doctrine of the trinity provides "a strong link between two aspects of his thought that often have seemed disconnected: his profound metaphysical musings and his zeal for the church and the Christian life" (p. 3).

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