![]() ![]() ![]() It is hard enough to defend a man everyone remembers from high school English as an exemplar of “terror preaching.” Add to this the fact that I am a feminist historical and constructive theologian and that Edwards was a staunch defender of orthodox Calvinism and late Puritan social hierarchy, and the defense is even harder to mount.īelieve it or not, it wasn’t Edwards’s way with a hellfire metaphor that first drew me in. “Actually,” I am tempted to say, “he only believed that about people who made ill-formed historical judgments.” “Wasn’t he that hellfire guy?” “The ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ guy, right?” Or my personal favorite, “You know, he believed that children would be tortured in hell for all eternity.” ![]() When I’m asked about my research, I rarely make it past the first five words: “I’m writing on Jonathan Edwards.” ![]()
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