Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
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Total Pages | : 1274 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Congregational churches |
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Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
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Total Pages | : 1274 |
Release | : 1835 |
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Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : Allen C. Guelzo |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2008-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1556357176 |
Jonathan Edwards towered over his contemporaries--a man over six feet tall and a figure of theological stature--but the reasons for his power have been a matter of dispute. Edwards on the Will offers a persuasive explanation. In 1753, after seven years of personal trials, which included dismissal from his Northampton church, Edwards submitted a treatise, Freedom of the Will, to Boston publishers. Its impact on Puritan society was profound. He had refused to be trapped either by a new Arminian scheme that seemed to make God impotent or by a Hobbesian natural determinism that made morality an illusion. He both reasserted the primacy of God's will and sought to reconcile freedom with necessity. In the process he shifted the focus from the community of duty to the freedom of the individual. Edwards died of smallpox in 1758 soon after becoming president of Princeton; as one obituary said, he was "a most rational . . . and exemplary Christian." Thereafter, for a century or more, all discussion of free will and on the church as an enclave of the pure in an impure society had to begin with Edwards. His disciples, the "New Divinity" men--principally Samuel Hopkins of Great Barrington and Joseph Bellamy of Bethlehem, Connecticut--set out to defend his thought. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, tried to keep his influence off the Yale Corporation, but Edwards's ideas spread beyond New Haven and sparked the religious revivals of the next decades. In the end, old Calvinism returned to Yale in the form of Nathaniel William Taylor, the Boston Unitarians captured Harvard, and Edwards's troublesome ghost was laid to rest. The debate on human freedom versus necessity continued, but theologians no longer controlled it. In Edwards on the Will, Guelzo presents with clarity and force the story of these fascinating maneuverings for the soul of New England and of the emerging nation.
Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
Publisher | : Fig |
Total Pages | : 723 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Emotions |
ISBN | : 1619791900 |
Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
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Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Congregational churches |
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Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
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Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1817 |
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Author | : Douglas A. Sweeney |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0830879412 |
Jonathan Edwards has been recognized as the most influential evangelical theologian of all time. Before his death at the age of fifty-four, he had sparked a new movement of Reformed evangelicals who played a major role in fueling the rise of modern missions, preaching revivals far and wide, and wielding the cutting edge of American theology. He has never gone out of print, and Christians today continue to flock to seminars and conferences on him. In this biography of the great preacher and teacher, historian Douglas Sweeney locates for us the core and key to Edwards' enduring impact. Sweeney finds that Edwards' profound and meticulous study of the Bible securely anchored his powerful preaching, his lively theological passions and his discerning pastoral work. Beyond introducing you to Edwards' life and times, this book will provide you with a model of Christian faith, thought and ministry.
Author | : Joseph A. Conforti |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780807845356 |
As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were gener
Author | : Harry S. Stout |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802869521 |
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely acknowledged as one of the most brilliant religious thinkers and multifaceted figures in American history. A fountainhead of modern evangelicalism, Edwards wore many hats during his lifetime--theologian, philosopher, pastor and town leader, preacher, missionary, college president, family man, among others. With nearly four hundred entries, this encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging perspective on Edwards, offering succinct synopses of topics large and small from his life, thought, and work. Summaries of Edwards's ideas as well as descriptions of the people and events of his times are all easy to find, and suggestions for further reading point to ways to explore topics in greater depth. Comprehensive and reliable, with contributions by 169 premier Edwards scholars from throughout the world, The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia will long stand as the standard reference work on this significant, extraordinary person.