Small Books about God: The American Artistry of Jonathan Edwards and Robert Beavers

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The rectangle of the book has become a circle by shooting.1

-Robert Beavers

How large is that thing in the Mind which they call Thought? Is Love square, or round?2

-Jonathan Edwards

The common cartoon of the American preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)-summed up simply by the words "fire and brimstone"-rapidly loses its bold outline under Perry Miller's biographical lens. Miller, renowned intellectual historian of the "New England mind" and founder of the Yale edition of the Works of Jonathan Edwards, narrates Edwards' lifelong labor to tolerate and resolve the collision between divine sovereignty and modern science, to crafta colonial …