The Jonathan Edwards center at Yale University has unveiled it’s new website they call “The Works of Jonathan Edwards 2.0″ or WJE 2.0. All of Jonathan Edwards’ works – 73 volumes in total – are now available in a completely searchable text format. 47 of the volumes have never published elsewhere until now. Many of these unpublished volumes contain unedited transcripts from Edwards never made ready for publication and previously accessible only to Edwards scholars in residence at Yale.
This online library is fully searchable via the web and will be a welcome resource to scholars world wide who delight to plumb the depths of Edwards’ thelogical mind.
Having completed this monumental task, The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale is taking their expertise in this regard and moving to create another resource for scholars called “First Source”. Their first project? Putting the works of Calvin and Melancthon on the web in a similar fashion.
Churchmen in the UCC will find all this of great interest. Edwards is the theological “source” for much of orthodox Congregational theology. Calvin and Melancthon were, of course, highly influential in the development of the Evangelical and Reformed church. Calvin overshadows all our heritage in the UCC due to his influence on both the Congregationalist and E&R wings of the church.
