Contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American Culture and Society. Essays on America’s Spiritual Founding Father

Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
The Historical Background to the Edwards Tercentenary – Richard A.S. Hall
Banquet Address: J. Edwards Conference – Huston Smith

Part II: Edwards as Social & Political Philosopher
Why is Jonathan Edwards America’s Spiritual Founding Father? – Herbert Richardson
The Mind of Jonathan Edwards – M. Darrol Bryant
“Our vast and ecumenical holding company”: Edwardsean Millennial Themes in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction – James Hewitson

Part III: Edwards as Interpreter of Nature
Edwards, Swedenborg, Emerson: From Typology to Correspondence – Devin P. Zuber
From Edwards to Emerson to Eddy: Extending a Trajectory of Metaphysical Idealism – David L. Weddle
Edwards—Thoreau—Dillard: Reading/Writing Nature and the Awakened/Awakening Self – Michael G. Ditmore

Part IV: Edwards & American Philosophy
Experience as Religious Discovery in Edwards & Peirce – Roger Ward
Jonathan Edwards as Proto-Pragmatist and John Dewey as Post-Theological Calvinist – Stuart Rosenbaum

Part V: Edwards in His Context
Bishop Butler and Jonathan Edwards – David White
Doing Metaethics with Kant and Edwards – Charles Don Keyes

Part VI: Edwards & Theology
Satan and the Maleficium in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards – Scott D. Seay
Jonathan Edwards’ Trinitarian Theology in the Context of the Early-Enlightenment Deist Controversy – Steve Studebaker

Part VII: Miscellaneous Themes in Edwards
Jonathan Edwards, Children, and Young People: Less of Earth and More of Heaven – Charles Pierce
Edwards’ Contribution to the Missionary Movement of Early Baptists – Michael D. Thompson
Edwards as Mystic – Richard A.S. Hall
“Heaven is a World of Love” – Ronald Story

Appendix
Program of Commemorative Concert
Music Scores
Program of Conference
Bulletin of Jonathan Edwards’ Tercentenary Worship Service Gallery – Darren Pierce