Harry S. Stout Explained

Harry S. Stout is an American historian of religion, who is currently the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity at Yale Divinity School.^[1] He is the editor of the 27 volume series The Works of Jonathan Edwards and the co-editor with Jon Butler of the 17-volume Religion and American Life series, which is aimed at high school students. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Stout received a B.A. from Calvin College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Kent State University.^[2]

Works

Author

• (1986) The New England Soul, Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • finalist: Pulitzer Prize for History
• (1991) The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans.
  • Critic's Award for History 1991
  • nomination: Pulitzer Prize for Biography
• (2006) Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. New York: Viking Books. finalist:
  • winner: Christianity Today Best History Book 2007
  • winner: Philip Schaff Prize for Best Book on the History of Christianity 2006-7
  • winner: New England Historical Association Best Book Award 2007
  • finalist: Lincoln Prize
• (2017) American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books.

Collaborations

• with Deborah H. Deford (1987) An Enemy Among Them. Boston: Clarion Books.

Contributor

• et al. (2005) Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

Editor

• (2017) The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia (27 volumes). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans

Co-editor

• co-editor with Nathan O. Hatch (1988) Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience. New York: Oxford University Press.
• co-editor with Daniel G. Reid, Robert D. Linder, and Bruce L. Shelley (1990) Dictionary of Christianity in America. Westmont, Illinois: Intervarsity Press.
  • Christianity Today Book of the Year Award 1990
• co-editor with Barbara B. Oberg (1993) Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and The Representation of American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
• co-editor with John F. Smith and Kenneth P. Minkema (1995) A Jonathan Edwards Reader. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• co-editor with D. G. Hart (1997) New Directions in American Religious History. New York: Oxford University Press.
• co-editor with Jon Butler (1997) Religion in American History: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press.
• co-editor with Randall M. Miller and Charles Reagan Wilson (1998) Religion and the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Harry Stout . yale.edu . April 11, 2017.
2. https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/harry-s-stout "Harry S. Stout"