Throughout the early decades of Jonathan Edwards'' ministry he engaged in a public and sustained debate with ''Arminian'' theology, a crusade that contributed significantly to the events of the ''Great Awakening''. This book investigates the substance of this theological war. In establishing a clearer historical context for this polemic, McClenahan seeks to overturn the consensus that Edwards'' own theology was a twisting of the Reformed tradition. By demonstrating that Edwards'' interlocutor was the dead English Archbishop, John Tillotson, McClenahan provides the hermeneutical key for many of Edwards'' most significant works.
