<p>In this challenging work Daniel draws on the semiotics of Foucault Kristeva and Peirce to explore Edwards's typology. . . . elegant and important . . . --Library Journal<br /><br />A provocative and at times brilliant reinterpretation of Edwards . . . --Religious Studies Review<br /><br /> . . . a comprehensive analysis and redefinition of the thought of Jonathan Edwards. --Peirce Project Newsletter<br /><br /> . . . a new foundation for the study of Edwards's thought and rhetoric. --Wilson H. Kimnach<br /><br />. . . this is a superb and important book one that deserves to be widely read and vigorously discussed. --Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society<br /><br />. . . 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 History<br /><br />Drawing 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.</p>