摘要:1]Jonathan Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's premier philosopher-theologian. Nevertheless, for the most part, his work has been examined only in the context of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Any consideration of his thought as a resource for issues of the twentieth, or now the twenty-first, century has been lacking. Thus the importance of Edwards in Our Time,a collection of essays originating at a conference on Edwards held in Philadelphia in 1996 -the fourth in a series of national conferences on the eighteenth-century divine sponsored primarily by The Works of Jonathan Edwards at Yale University