Jonathan Edwards Center Online Initiative

FAIN: RQ-230464-15

Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Harry S. Stout (Project Director: December 2014 to July 2024)

Preparation for online publication of the collected papers of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), colonial American pastor, author, educator, and theologian. (36 months)

The Edwards Works Online utilizes the most current standards for electronic documentary editions and provides a broad range of resources to assist readers and researchers. In the next phase, 2015-2018, the Jonathan Edwards Center, intent on staying current with technological developments in digital humanities, will completely update its platform and website; it will use this new platform not only to re-present its current online archive but also to prepare and present previously unavailable texts, focusing on the sermons Edwards delivered during the "Great Awakening" of the early 1740s and to Native Americans during the 1750s, providing an unprecedented view of him as a preacher in these crucial periods; and it will link these documents to a newly scanned bank of manuscript images.

Associated Products

Session title: “Digitizing Early New England Religion”; paper title: "The Jonathan Edwards Online Archive and Sources on Native American Missions” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Session title: “Digitizing Early New England Religion”; paper title: "The Jonathan Edwards Online Archive and Sources on Native American Missions”
Author: Kenneth P. Minkema
Abstract: Interest in Jonathan Edwards has reached an all-time high, as reflected in the continuous flow of books, articles, theses and dissertations on him, but also in the use of his works online. This presentation will briefly survey the development of the Edwards Center’s website and online archive, then describe new texts being prepared for publication, with a special focus on those related to Native Americans and missions. Key to the growth of work on Edwards is the network of affiliate centers around the world, community-sourcing projects, the creation of educational resources, and other outreach methods that encourage engagement with Edwards’s writings, times, and legacy.
Date: 06/22/2016
Conference Name: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Worcester, Mass.

Workshop: "Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies"; presentation title: "“Jonathan Edwards and Native American Sources” (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Workshop: "Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies"; presentation title: "“Jonathan Edwards and Native American Sources”
Author: Kenneth P. Minkema
Abstract: After a review of some of the online initiatives of the Jonathan Edwards Center that may present resources for digital Native American and Indigenous Studies, this presentation reviews several areas in Edwards' corpus with potential for Native American Studies, including correspondence, sermons, petitions, and miscellaneous documents.
Date Range: 07/29/2015
Location: Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

“Writing the Dead: Death & Memory in the Edwards Family in the Early Eighteenth Century,” (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: “Writing the Dead: Death & Memory in the Edwards Family in the Early Eighteenth Century,”
Writer: Kenneth P. Minkema
Director: Douglas A. Sweeney
Producer: Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Abstract: This essay focuses on several instances of death and memorialization within two generations of the Edwardses in eighteenth-century New England, namely, the families of Timothy Edwards, born in 1669, and of his son Jonathan, who both died in the same year, 1758. Attitudes about death and separation reveal much about father, son, and their extended families, attitudes qualified by age, gender, and other factors, and suggesting wider and richer possibilities for post-puritan religious culture.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://jecteds.org
Primary URL Description: Jonathan Edwards Center, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill.
Format: Web

JonathanEdwards Center (Web Resource)
Title: JonathanEdwards Center
Author: Harry Stout
Abstract: The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online is a collection of writings and articles from Jonathan Edwards
Year: 2012
Secondary URL: http://edwards.yale.edu

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