Introduction
Singly, Particularly, and Closely: An Introduction
Chapter I The Traditioned Self: Edwards's Place in the History of
Mentoring
1. The Value of Virtue in Premodern Practice
2. The Desire for Discipline in the Modern World
3. The Power of Models in Puritan Practice
4. The Early Experience of Jonathan Edwards
Chapter II The Affective Turn: Edwards as Culturally Modern
Mentor
1. Authority: A Modern Challenge to Ministry Assumptions
2. Friendship: The Dynamic Context of Edwards's Mentoring
3. Conversation: Social Means to Sanctified Ends
4. Pedagogy: Edwards's Inductive Educational Approach
5. Correspondence: Edwards's Familiar Discourse
6. Leadership: Promotion of Heroic Spirituality in Sermons
Chapter III The Mimetic Way: Edwards's Mentoring as a Guide to
Glory
1. The Image of God: The Possibility of Connection in Creation
2. The Power of Imitation: A Christological Strategy for Growth
3. The Beatific Vision: The Ends Shapes the Means
4. The Integrative Reflex: Strategy of Resistance and Renewal
Chapter IV The Revolutionary Lens: The Edwardsean Mentoring
Legacy
1. Edwards's Mentoring Legacy Defined
2. Edwards's Mentoring Legacy Radicalized
3. Edwards's Mentoring Legacy Institutionalized
4. Edwards's Mentoring Legacy Defended
Coda
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Rhys S. Bezzant has served as an ordained priest in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, and presently teaches Church History at Ridley College, where he directs the Jonathan Edwards Center Australia. He is also a Canon at St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards and the Church (OUP 2013).
"Edwards as Mentor is an important work that fills a lacuna in
Edwards Studies. As a work of historical theology, it will be
widely read and appreciated by scholars of Edwards and
eighteenth-century evangelicalism." -- Nathan A. Finn, Southeastern
Theological Review
"As a recommendation, this book is not only for Edwards or Andrew
Fuller scholars, but also for professors and pastors who need to
revise what successful mentorship looks like." -- John S. Banks,
The Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies
"This volume is profoundly interesting..." -- Kyle C. Strobel,
Church History
"I was a little skeptical when I was given this book, but the
author has demonstrated that the questions he poses provide new
insights and new connections. He has also revealed that, even after
so many years, research on Edwards still raises many unexpected
possibilities... I give this book a rich welcome." -- Wim van
Vlastuin, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Journal of Reformed
Theology
"... this monograph is a scintillating study of a neglected area of
Edwards's life, which, if taken to heart, would have enormous
implications for theological education in the Age of Facebook...
the text and notes are pure gold!" -- Michael A.G. Haykin, The
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, Church
History and Religious Culture
"For a rich and historically informed study with suggestive
application to the present moment, Bezzant's analysis of Edwards'
mentoring model will repay careful reading." -- James M. Garretson,
The Banner of Truth
"His tone, language, and historical approach would best serve
Edwards scholars interested in a specific account of Edwards's
place as a mentor during the Enlightenment period." -- Karin
Spiecker Stetina, Talbot School of Theology, Themelios
"Jonathan Edwards tends to be romantically imagined as a lone
figure, wrestling with ultimate questions in isolation, and not as
an organization builder. While he did more than his share of
intellectual and spiritual wrestling, he did not do it in solitude
but trained youthful minds and hearts. As Rhys Bezzant shows us so
innovatively in this new take on the colonial theologian and
pastor, Edwards was conscious of his legacy, and mentored rising
generations of
believers and leaders." -- Kenneth P. Minkema, Executive Editor and
Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
"This innovative study explores a wide variety of intersecting
topics, from friendship between men and the arts of conversation
and letter writing to the history and theology of pastoral
mentorship. Bezzant's reconstruction of Edwards's efforts to train
and nurture the next generation of 'Sons of Thunder' is a fresh
contribution to Edwards scholarship that will interest social
historians and American theologians alike." -- Ava Chamberlain,
Author of The
Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the
Family of Jonathan Edwards.
"Rhys S. Bezzant has provided us with an original piece of
research, combined with scholarly expertise, and wide ranging and
significant application to the life of the church in the
twenty-first century. This is an important book. It is well
written. It is well researched. And it will help you follow
Edwards's example of mentoring people for Christ's glory today.
Read it!" -- Josh Moody, Senior Pastor of College Church, Wheaton,
Illinois
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