In this talk I assess how the availability of Newton's writings in a searchable, digital format has transformed our capacity to understand and explain his intellectual work. I examine the ways in which the existence of various datasets has allowed modern researchers both to examine Newton's work in unprecedented detail, and also to investigate how his methods and conceptual apparatus in one of his subject-areas (in this case, his theological work) shared similar approaches to those he adopted in other subjects. Indeed, it is now possible to see much more clearly than before how his research in areas such as theology, alchemy and natural philosophy cohered (or did not). However, I conclude that in order to do innovative but robust scholarly research of this kind, one needs experience in the use of such digital resources, along with the full toolbox of traditional scholarly skills. One needs also to be aware of the extent to which the Newton that emerges from this new research is shaped, or even determined by these new methods of historical investigation.
