"In this challenging work, Daniel draws on the semiotics of Foucault, Kristeva, and Peirce to explore Edwards s typology.... elegant and important... " Library Journal"A provocative and at times brilliant reinterpretation of Edwards... " Religious Studies Review..". a comprehensive analysis and redefinition of the thought of Jonathan Edwards." Peirce Project Newsletter..". a new foundation for the study of Edwards s thought and rhetoric." Wilson H. Kimnach..". this is a superb and important book, one that deserves to be widely read and vigorously discussed." Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society..". Daniel s work ought... to be required reading among the Edwards guild, for it provides perhaps the best philosophical introduction in English to Edward s major writings." Church HistoryDrawing on the semiotic work of Peirce, Foucault, and Kristeva, Stephen Daniel shows how the Renaissance theory of signatures provides Edwards and his contemporaries with a powerful alternative to the ideas of Descartes and Locke."