The tricentennial of the birth of Jonathan Edwards in 2003 occasioned numerous academic and ecclesiastical conferences and the publication of substantial monographs, collections of scholarly essays and new volumes of the works of America's premier theologian himself. Most significant among these was George Marsden's stellar biography, the near completion of the multi-volume Yale edition of The works of Jonathan Edwards (fifty years in the making), conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by the Yale Edition, and the Yale Edition's commitment to making every extant piece of Edwards's writing available electronically on the web. The Cambridge companion, edited and introduced by one of the Yale Edition's most prominent contributors, contains sixteen chapters on various aspects of Edwards's life, thought, influence and legacy by leading scholars, many of whom have been associated with the Yale Edition and its conferences. The book thus presents the fruit of many decades and several generations of work, ranging from the mature scholarship of such senior historians as David D. Hall, Harry S. Stout and E. Brooks Holifield, to the work of leading younger historians such as Ava Chamberlain, Douglas A. Sweeney and Rachel M. Wheeler. The chapters are divided into three sections – Edwards's life and context, Edwards's roles and achievements, and Edwards's legacy and reputation – and effectively deal with all categories of his writings. At the centre of the volume are the six chapters that successively explore Edwards's work as preacher, revivalist, theologian, philosopher, biblical exegete and missionary. Some of these, such as Stein's chapter on Edwards as biblical exegete and Wheeler's cultural-historical analysis of Edwards as missionary to the Indians on the Massachusetts frontier, break new ground and point in new directions. The six final chapters, exploring Edwards's influence abroad and in American culture down through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are strikingly inclusive. They persuasively address not only his impact on developments in American literature and philosophy but also on enduring American religious traditions like revivalism, popular evangelicalism and conservative Calvinism – Edwardsean legacies and areas of contemporary American life more typically neglected by intellectual historians and students of American literature and culture. While books that collect essays by many authors are often flawed by uneven quality, The Cambridge companion to Jonathan Edwards is almost uniformly excellent from chapter to chapter, a thoroughly reliable introduction to America's most famous and highly regarded theologian.