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Walton, Brad
About the author: Dr. Walton received his ThD in History from the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College). He has been a Lecturer on various aspects of Christianity at Tyndale College and Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.
2002 0-7734-7236-3This study focuses on Jonathan Edwards’s Treatise Concerning Religious Affections and shows that rather than discontinuity, Edwards’s religion of the heart reflects a conservative extension of traditional Puritan thought into the time of the Great Awakening. It opposes the main-stream scholarly views of Edwards, argue that, however unique as a fully synthesized and exhaustive work, the Religious Affections is constructed almost entirely from elements deriving from 16th and 17th century Puritanism.