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Item An Encyclopedia of Conscience: Introduction(IU Conscience Project, 2021) Galvin, Matthew R.; Gaffney, Margaret M.Since 2001, our Conscience Project meetings have regularly included lively discussions and applications of the conceptual framework of conscience theory - stages, domains and bedrock/intrinsic values – to the ideas we are studying in ethics, neuroscience, education, philosophy, psychology and theology. Early on, Dr. Barbara Stilwell compiled an alphabetical list of authors who may or may not have been explicit about conscience, but who deeply influenced our theory of conscience as it evolved, and recently, we have begun to apply the same conscience-sensitive approaches to character/author analyses in the histories, biographies, and other literature, fact and fiction, we are reading. We are excited to see how these unique conscience-sensitive approaches can enrich our own writing and teaching in humanistic medicine, general humanities, and specifically, moral education. The brief entries in this Encyclopedia of Conscience are not meant to be full biographies, but rather to provide an imaginative sketch of the form and function of each subject’s conscience. We welcome ideas and additions.Item Review of Jonathan Edwards, A Life. George Marsden. New Haven; London : Yale Univ Pr, 2003.(De Gruyter, 2006) Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal ArtsBy now, it would seem there is not much left to be said about George Marsden’s commanding biography of Jonathan Edwards. It has been awarded prizes too numerous to list, (but including the Bancroft, the Merle Curti, and the Grawemeyer). It has been praised as a “magisterial synthesis,” and the “best book ever written about America’s … greatest theologian” (comments by Edmund Morgan and Sam Logan from dust jacket.) It is, indeed, a much-needed book. The first major biography of Edwards in over half a century, it is arguably the first biography ever to attempt to take the measure of the whole man. Marsden’s signal contribution is in creating a cogent, compelling synthesis of the rapidly expanding field of Edwards scholarship. In a tightly wrought narrative that clocks in at just over 500 pages, Marsden elegantly braids together this new scholarship with the raw materials that have only recently been made more widely accessible through the efforts of Harry Stout, Kenneth Minkema and the others at the Works of Jonathan Edwards at Yale who carry on the work started by Perry Miller. A look at the newly launched website of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale (http://edwards.vale.edu/) quickly makes apparent the magnitude of Marsden’s achievement and why such a biography could only have been written recently. The website will soon make available all 26 volumes of the published Works of Jonathan Edwards series, representing about 25,000 manuscript pages of Edward’s writings. An additional 25,000 pages will be added over the next few years.