Who wouldn't want a free drink and the opportunity to hear a stimulating lecture? If you are in the Chattanooga area on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30pm, consider stopping in at the Camp House for the next Theology on Tap session. I have the privilege of giving this talk. Below is my abstract.
What difference does the printed word
make in the dissemination of ideas? How and why were books published during the
eighteenth century? In this talk, UC Foundation Associate Professor of Religion
Jonathan Yeager will explain how Jonathan Edwards became an international
celebrity because of the way that his books were published. Today we know of
Edwards as America's greatest theologian and a leading revivalist during his
day, but before the publication of his famous account of an awakening in
Northampton, Massachusetts in 1734-35, he was known only regionally as a New
England pastor. With the success of Edwards's Faithful Narrative of the
Surprising Work of God at London in 1737, he went on to write other
landmark publications, including his Treatise Concerning Religious
Affections (1746), The Life of David Brainerd (1749), Freedom of
the Will (1754), and Original Sin (1758). How did the way that these
books were published influence the reception of his ideas? Were some of his
books more popular than others, and why? These and other questions will be
answered in Dr. Yeager's interactive presentation on "Jonathan Edwards and
the Power of Print," the subject of which forms the basis of his
forthcoming book with Oxford University Press.
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