Between Two Worlds

A while back I asked Caleb Maskell of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale to send along an update on the Works of JE Online. Caleb passes along the following good news:

The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University is in the final stages of development of the WJEOnline, a complete critical digital library of the papers of Jonathan Edwards. The library will be made available to Beta testers in March of this year. If you are interested being among the earliest users of this leading-edge resource for reading, study, and scholarship, sign up now at http://edwards.yale.edu/beta. We will still be accepting Beta testers through the beginning of February. The first 25000 pages of Edwards papers to go online will be the entire Miscellanies corpus and several hundred sermons, fully searchable by scripture, theme, chronology, and so on.

Along with the development of the digital Edwards, we are in the homestretch of our letterpress series, the Blank Bible galleys are undergoing final revisions, as is the final volume of sermons.

We expect both of those to be out in the next few months.

One very interesting item of note is Doug Winiarski's lead article in the new edition of Church History about a newly discovered document that gives an account of Edwards' preaching in the Great Awakening. Check out the abstract at http://edwards.yale.edu/about-jec/news

Finally, there is a very exciting possibility of having a major Edwards conference at Yale in the next few months. This remains unconfirmed at this time, but check the website regularly for information, as spaces will fill quickly upon announcement.