Gura, Philip F.

Philip F. Gura (Ph.D. Harvard)is William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of many books, including The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance; A Glimpse of Sion s Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620 1660; Jonathan Edwards, America s Evangelical; and American Transcendentalism: A History. For ten years he was editor of the journal Early American Literature. He is an elected member of the Society...