| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons. Ed. by David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xxiv, 330 pp. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-519-9.)
When John Wesley republished Jonathan Edwards's books, he cut the Calvinism, salvaging "wholesome food" from "deadly poison" (p. 179). A thinker's legacy belongs to those who appropriate his ideas and customize them to suit. This collection of essays asks who grasped Edwards's legacy and how they used it. There are many answers, for Edwards gave expectancies to many claimants—local and transatlantic, Calvinist and Enlightened, traditional and modern. The book reveals the varied ways that those shaped by Edwards reshaped him, making his ends their means.	1
Some spurned Edwards as obsolete. In the "Bad Books" episode, says Ava Chamberlain, parishioners repudiated his traditional single standard for punishing sexual offenses. Nineteenth-century Americans, says Catherine A. Brekus, recoiled from his old-fashioned views on infant damnation.	. . .

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