Written mostly for a popular audience, this work is a contribution to the ever-growing body of scholarly literature aimed at the rehabilitation of Jonathan Edwards's persona and religious significance. The author seeks to mitigate the image of Edwards as a bleak moralist (derived from a preoccupation with his unrelenting Calvinism) by offering a more complete picture of his thought, beginning with the aesthetic orientation of his theology. Story argues that Edwards's theology was not dominated by images of doom, as it is so often caricatured, but rather by images related to enjoyment: light, beauty, harmony, and sweetness. Edwards's theology was built around the notion that the graced experience of God is pleasurable, mediated through the near-infinite goods found in creation. He goes on to show that for Edwards, this delight in God was not to be found merely in private ecstasy, but rather, as a social experience, expressed in charity, community, and love. The disposition of generosity to all humanity figured prominently in Edwards's exhortations to his parishioners, and was the chief mark of true religion. Above all, Story argues, love is the foundational concept of Edwards's theology. Love from God, love of God, and love of neighbor: these, and not condemnation, were the cardinal themes of Edwards's preaching and writing.