Jonathan Edwards, Pastor

by Patricia Tracy

Overview

The Jonathan Edwards Classic Studies Series

The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University is pleased to offer this volume, in grateful cooperation with Wipf & Stock Publishers, as part of its mission to encourage ongoing research into and readership of one of America's most original thinkers and one of its most significant historical and cultural figures. As much as the Edwards Center is devoted to presenting Edwards's own writings in a comprehensive and authoritative online format, we also see providing secondary resources as vital to supporting an ongoing understanding of Edwards's extensive and varied corpus, which can be accessed at http: //edwards.yale.edu.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597526128
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	08/01/2006
Series:	Jonathan Edwards Classic Studies , #2
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 8.38(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Patricia J. Tracy taught History and American Studies for twenty-two years at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and also taught history and women's studies at Virginia Tech.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Patricia Tracy's 'Jonathan Edwards, Pastor' is a fine book, gracefully written and full of important new information about Edwards, his father, the lands in the town of Northampton, the seating controversy in the church, the differences between the two revivals, the conflicts over discipline in the community, and Edwards' last battle with his congregation. The social importance and the human vitality in all these subjects shine through Tracy's remarkably intelligent narrative."

—David Levin, University of Virginia


"Patricia Tracy's investigation of the triumphs, tribulations, and final tragedy of Jonathan Edwards' pastoral career is a fascinating and thoughtful contribution to the large literature on America's most famous religious thinker. More effectively than any writer I know of, she has described the almost ineluctable course of events that led to his dismissal from the church in Northampton. . . . Reading this book was for me an absorbing and instructive pleasure; I expect that scholars and students alike would enjoy the same experience."

—Sydney E. Ahlstrom, Yale University


"Ms. Tracy's meticulous research and disciplined interpretation result here in a fine portrait of Jonathan Edwards the pastor in all his grandeur and misery. This is a social / religious / intellectual history as it ought to be written."

—C. C. Goen, Wesley Theological Seminary

Editorial Reviews

"Patricia Tracy's 'Jonathan Edwards, Pastor' is a fine book, gracefully written and full of important new information about Edwards, his father, the lands in the town of Northampton, the seating controversy in the church, the differences between the two revivals, the conflicts over discipline in the community, and Edwards' last battle with his congregation. The social importance and the human vitality in all these subjects shine through Tracy's remarkably intelligent narrative."

—David Levin, University of Virginia


"Patricia Tracy's investigation of the triumphs, tribulations, and final tragedy of Jonathan Edwards' pastoral career is a fascinating and thoughtful contribution to the large literature on America's most famous religious thinker. More effectively than any writer I know of, she has described the almost ineluctable course of events that led to his dismissal from the church in Northampton. . . . Reading this book was for me an absorbing and instructive pleasure; I expect that scholars and students alike would enjoy the same experience."

—Sydney E. Ahlstrom, Yale University


"Ms. Tracy's meticulous research and disciplined interpretation result here in a fine portrait of Jonathan Edwards the pastor in all his grandeur and misery. This is a social / religious / intellectual history as it ought to be written."

—C. C. Goen, Wesley Theological Seminary

From the Publisher