This whopping book is without doubt the Big Mac of Jonathan Edwards studies. Such studies are in a phase of exponential growth since the acceleration of hitherto unpublished material in the Yale edition of Edwards's works, augmented by the online resources of the superb Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale. Edwards, who often struggled to find plain paper on which to write his daily notes and miscellanies, would have been astonished. What might he have accomplished had he possessed online facilities? Some posthumously published material has already aroused considerable interest; an essay (or discourse) on the Trinity, the brain-child of Edwards's youth, which he left unfinished, complete with scratchings-out, is a case in point; how can distortion be avoided if entire books are written on Edwards which are basically discussions of this youthful effort? The authors of the Big Mac face these and other such problems in an eminently sensible way. Writing clearly and accessibly, but also authoritatively and yet modestly, they compare their product to the sections of a symphony orchestra, or to a series of viewing stations of both the explored and yet to-be-explored interior of Edwards's writings. Someone who wishes to make progress studying Edwards in his role as a theologian, or as a figure taking part in the enlightenment conflict, or a pastor and preacher, or a revivalist, or a philosopher, an exegete, an angelologist, or a visionary, ought to start with the Big Mac. As they work through their various viewpoints on Edwards, the authors enliven the character of their task by adopting a variety of different expository methods. For example, the chapter on Edwards's history of the work of redemption, his promise of ‘a body of divinity in an entire new method, being thrown into the form of a history’ results in a work of constructive engagement with Edwards. They note that his work as an exegete has borne fruit in the five volumes (2,500 pages) of his hitherto-unpublished exegetical notes, not counting remarks in the sermons, on which little work has so far been done. In considering his view of history, apocalyptic, the millennium, they assess interpretations of contemporary scholarship. They expound the soteriological heart of Edwards's theology admirably, while highlighting differences in scholarly opinion. Throughout these different approaches to the material, their expository style retains the same qualities, thorough, highly informed, and yet leaving enough slack to invite further thought and research. The overwhelming impression left by the book is that Edwards was not simply a highly intelligent and conscientious (but snooty) Calvinist pastor. He was a thinker with a worked-out view of God and the cosmos of Augustinian proportions, the key to which is nevertheless a Calvinist conviction regarding God's absolute sovereignty in creation, grace and judgement.