Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: The American Augustine -- EDWARDS'S LIFE OF THE MIND -- One: A Short Intellectual Biography -- Early Life, Education, and Works -- Early Career and Studies -- Northampton Pastorate -- The Great Awakening -- Life and Works at Stockbridge -- THE SOUL -- Two: Young Man Edwards: Religious Conversion and Theologia Gloriae -- Constructing the Self: Edwards's Conversion Moment -- Conversion as an Existential Religious Experience -- Edwards's Experience of Conversion -- The Morphology of Edwards's Conversion -- Conversion and the Development of Edwards's Theological and Philosophical Thought -- SPACE -- Three: Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning: Edwards and the Reenchantment of the World -- The Scientific Revolution's Disenchantment of the World -- Atomic Doctrine -- The Mechanization of Nature and the World -- The Laws of Nature -- God and the World -- The Nature of the Created Order -- The Poverty of the Mechanistic Interpretation -- Edwards and the Reenchantment of the World -- Disenchantment of the World, Eighteenth-Century Imagination, and the Protestant Evangelical Awakening -- TIME -- Four: The Ideological Origins of Edwards's Philosophy of History -- The Disenchantment of the World and the Reenchantment of the Soul -- Constructing the Order of Time -- Homogeneous Time, Empty Time, and "Redeeming the Time" -- History, Ideology, and Redemption -- Edwards's Poetics of History -- Ecclesiastical History as a Mode of Christian Historical Thought -- The Protestant and Puritan Ideology of History -- Edwards as an Ecclesiastical Historian -- Five: God's Great Design in History: The Formation of Edwards's Redemptive Mode of Historical Thought -- The Quest for God's Absolute Sovereignty in the Order of Time -- The Formation of the Redemptive Mode of Historical Thought: The Early Miscellanies.

The Work of Redemption and the Work of Conversion -- God's Great Design in History -- Conversion, Revival, and Redemption-The "Little Revival," 1734-1735 -- The Work of Redemption and God's Self-Glorification -- The Work of Redemption as the "Great End and Drift of all Gods Works" -- Six: Edwards's Philosophy of History: The History of the Work of Redemption -- Sacred History and Historia Humana -- The History of the Work of Redemption -- The Redemptive Mode of Historical Thought -- Revival as the Manifestation of Divine Agency in the Order of History -- The Theological and Teleological Structure Inherent in the Redemptive Process -- Seven: "Chariots of Salvation": The Apocalypse and Eschatology of the Great Awakening -- Rhetoric and History in the Great Awakening -- The Eschatology of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God -- "The Glory of the Approaching Happy State of the Church": The Distinguishing Marks -- The "Glorious Work of God" which "Shall Renew the World of Mankind": Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival -- ETHICS -- Eight: Edwards and the Enlightenment Debate on Moral Philosophy -- The Enlightenment Disenchantment of the World of Ethics and Morals -- Edwards and the British School of Moral Sense -- Epilogue: Edwards and American Protestant Tradition -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.