Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards’s sermon reflects the complicated religious culture of eighteenth-century America, influenced not just by Calvinism, but Newtonian physics as well.

Southern Baptists were seeking a religion of the heart, and in Edwards they discovered a trove of treatises, biographies, and sermons on Christian spirituality.

When we think of Jonathan Edwards, most probably think first of him as a theologian or preacher. But a new book also shows him as a mentor.

Aaron Bushnell and the age of immolation.

The long historical roots and continuing relevance of the disgraced preacher's story.

One historian, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian, says no.

Historians often treat Miller as a foil, but the Father of American Intellectual history retains untapped potential to inspire new modes of inquiry.

Luther is part myth, mascot, and mantle, symbolizing the hopes and sanctifying the heroes of American evangelicalism.

Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.

A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.

Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.

A review of "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America."

Divisions in society and religion that still exist today resulted from the "Great Awakenings" of the 18th Century.

The terms meaning has shifted throughout Christianity’s long history, making it difficult to define.