By Gerald R. McDermott
Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is well known as America's maximum non secular brain. A torrent of books, articles, and dissertations on Edwards were published given that 1949, the 12 months that Perry Miller released the highbrow biography that introduced the fashionable explosion of Edwards stories. This assortment deals an creation to Edwards's existence and inspiration, pitched on the point of the expert normal reader. each one bankruptcy serves as a normal advent to 1 of Edwards's significant themes, together with revival, the Bible, good looks, literature, philosophy, typology, or even international religions. each one is written through a number one professional on Edwards's paintings. The booklet will function a terrific first come across with the concept of "America's theologian."
Review
"This strangely precious e-book is distinct for a way truly its scholarly authors clarify the wide-ranging importance of Jonathan Edwards for readers who're no longer themselves students. The inclusion of eu commentators additionally demonstrates how huge modern curiosity has grown in Edwards as America's maximum theological voice. The ebook is, in equivalent degree, authoritative, available, and illuminating." --Mark A. Noll, writer of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
"[Understanding Jonathan Edwards] used to be written if you happen to could have little to no wisdom of Edwards or the sphere of Edwards stories. What excites me approximately this is often that it accomplishes what few (if any) have: an advent to significant topics in Edwards's inspiration that's usable for the study room. ...Those instructing sessions on Edwards will doubtless be thankful, and people searching for an creation to Edwards' rules will discover a useful roadmap." --Themelios
"An dependent and enlightening creation to realizing Edwards by way of a lifelong captivation by means of thte fantastic thing about God." --Touchstone
About the Author
Gerald R. McDermott is the Jordan-Trexler Professor of faith at Roanoke collage and extraordinary Senior Fellow on the Baylor Institute for reviews of faith.
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While Edwards’s original intention for the natural and moral distinction was to argue against the “prevailing notion” of Arminianism, Fuller used the distinction to fight on two fronts, against both Hyper-Calvinists and Arminians. For more on this dispute, see Chris Chun, “A Mainspring of Missionary Thought: Andrew Fuller on Natural and Moral Inability,” American Baptist Quarterly, 25, no. 4 (winter 2006): 335–55. 8. ” See Andrew Fuller, The Gospel of Christ Worthy of All Acceptation (Northampton, England: T.
He was ambivalent toward Indians (hating their religion but loving many of those he knew personally), a philosopher who picked and chose from the world’s best thinkers, and a religious thinker whose theology sowed the seeds of the very democracy he feared. He defended slavery but opposed the slave trade and offered Janus-faced positions on gender. His spirituality was intense, his influence immense: four thousand books, dissertations, and articles have been distributed in the past half-century. And because of the worldwide expansion of evangelical Christianity, his star is rising around the world.
In 1746, during the War of Austrian Succession, he was completing his famous Treatise Concerning Religious Affections as watchtowers went up around Northampton to guard against attacks by the French and Iroquois. In the spring and summer of 1754, at the beginning of the Seven Years’ War, Stockbridge suffered several Indian raids in which colonists were killed and taken captive, and Edwards’s house was “forted in” with a stockade and quartered by soldiers; Edwards lived in daily fear of attack and made preparations to evacuate his family.