Readers with an academic interest in the American religious icon Jonathan Edwards will delight in the critical breadth and depth of this collection of thirty-seven essays from leading scholars. Its original essays from an interdisciplinary group of contributors collectively summarise the current state of Edwards scholarship and break new ground.

Part i provides the historical and intellectual context of Edwards's lifetime of work at both local and international levels. It includes five compact essays on Edwards's family life, his parish ministry and the sources of Edwards's thought. Part ii explores Edwards's many intellectual projects. This part's seventeen chapters analyse conventional and novel contributions from America's theologian, including well-crafted pieces on Edwardsean ontology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and idealism, as well as Edwards's distinct theology of creation, predestination and revelation. Part iii examines Edwards's religious and social practices in colonial New England. Seven essays show how eighteenth-century American church life, education, missions and politics governed the ways in which Edwards realised his ideas.

Part iv consists of a rather unique set of chapters that trace Edwards's varied reception within popular religion and scholarly literature across the world over time. Eight diverse essays treat readers to a wide variety of critically engaged literary and scholarly works from Africa, Asia, Australia, Britain, Europe and Latin America. The remarkable adaptability of Edwards's thought to local Evangelical settings around the world testifies to the ongoing global significance of Edwards studies.

Each entry includes a brief bibliography to aid further research. Far more treasures await within this magisterial volume than this humble review can cover. The Oxford handbook of Jonathan Edwards will serve as the benchmark for Edwards studies for many years to come.