Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Tim Keller.

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.