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Widely regarded as perhaps America's greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards still suffers the stereotype of hellfire preacher obsessed with God's wrath. In this anthology, Gerald McDermott and Ronald Story seek to correct that common view by showing that Edwards was also a compassionate, socially conscious minister of the first order.

Through a selection of sermons and primary writings, McDermott and Story reveal an Edwards who preached love toward all humanity regardless of belief or appearance; who demanded private and public charity to the poor; who criticized hard-hearted business...

The Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts is home to one of the most successful consortia in American higher education. Four private colleges and the state university have banded together to plan and carry out cooperative programs under the banner of Five Colleges. Commemorating twenty-five years of collaboration, as Donald R. Friary points out in the foreword, this volume offers five essays that speak to the distinctive histories of each of these institutions.

In the first essay, Theodore P. Greene depicts the temper of Amherst College in the early decades after its...