Jonathan Edwards and the Puritan Tradition

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This course's primary goal is to examine the interaction between Jonathan Edwards and his age. Though we will pay attention both to the man and to the age, the focus will fall on the interaction between them and how Edwards drew on the intellectual and cultural resources of the times and how the times made his work possible. A closely related secondary goal is to sharpen our ability to read primary and secondary texts, both appreciatively and critically. What did the authors intend to convey? What did they leave out? What did their audiences hear then, over the years, and now? What difference does any or all of this make?