A Divine Light: The Spiritual Leadership of Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) was one of the leading religious thinkers of colonial America. Graduating at the top of his class at Yale at the age of seventeen, he became the senior pastor of the Congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1729 at the age of twenty-six. As pastor of the most influential church in New England at the time, his powerful preaching helped launch the revival of 1734–35 and spearheaded the more extensive Great Awakening of 1740–41.

Edwards became a friend...