| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards. By Douglas A. Sweeney. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 255 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-515428-2.)

In the century following Jonathan Edwards's death in 1758, his New Divinity disciples created a vast library of controversial literature exploring, defending, and extending their master's seminal insights about sin, freedom, regeneration, and virtue. While they never ceased arguing with their Old Calvinist, Arminian, and Unitarian opponents, Edwardsians increasingly quarreled among themselves about who could rightfully claim the mantle of the master. During the past half century, scholars of Edwards and Edwardsianism have created a vast library of their own. Although the master remains the center of scholarly attention, works on his disciples appear with increasing frequency, as historians have become engaged in debates about who was, and who was not, truly Edwardsian. Nathaniel Taylor, father of the New Haven theology and professor of didactic theology at Yale College from 1822 to 1858, is at the center of such controversies. Taylor claimed he was an Edwardsian, while his critics (and a fair number of historians) insisted that his redefinition of key Calvinist terms undermined the New England theology.

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