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Philip F. Gura. Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical. (American Portraits.) New York: Hill and Wang. 2005. Pp. xv, 284. $24.00.

The tercentenary of Jonathan Edwards's birth in 2003 precipitated a flurry of new books on various aspects of Edwards's writings, thought, and legacy. The 2003 celebration—featuring conferences at the Library of Congress, Princeton Seminary, and other venues—followed decades of development in Edwards studies. Secondary works on Edwards have grown almost exponentially since 1950. Yet more importantly, the completion of the twenty-three-volume critical edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards (1957–2004) added immensely to the fund of available knowledge. George Claghorn's edited volume of Letters and Personal Writings (1998) in the Works provided a wealth of new biographical material. Five volumes of selected sermons, most previously unpublished, presented a conspectus of Edwards's pastoral labors. The four-volume Miscellanies offered a clearer picture of Edwards's entire intellectual development. . . .

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