In this, his most well-known sermon, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) shows the danger of ignoring the gracious but time-limited offer of reconciliation for rebel sinners. He paints, in vivid detail, the uncertainty of our frail lives, which are ever in jeopardy of exiting into eternity through any of many available doorways to our demise. Edwards meditates on the horror of the severe and eternal punishment that awaits those who stubbornly refuse the gracious offer of Christ's propitiation, an...

In 1748, Jonathan Edwards, inspired by a letter from Scotland, published An Humble Attempt to rally believers in united, extraordinary prayer. Fifty years later, after a period of spiritual distraction and decline, New England pastors republished the work, calling the church to take up Edward's proposal. What followed was a sixty-five year period of prayer that launched a Great Awakening.This is not just an event in our history. It is an ancient well of revival we are call...

According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian". His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. His famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Ang...

"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly reader of helpful Puritan works. Each article is carefully edited and formatted to maximize readability. The autumn 2012 edition of "The Digital Puritan" contains the following articles:The Preciousness of Time - Jonathan Edwards. This sermon, from 1734, reveals how being mindful of the brevity of this life makes us live life to the fullest (i.e. with eternity in view).A Description of True B...

In The Freedom of the Will, presented across its four tightly argued parts, Jonathan Edwards examines whether human liberty can coexist with divine sovereignty, moral necessity, and genuine responsibility. Written in a dense, analytic prose that joins scholastic precision to Reformed theology, the work answers Enlightenment and Arminian accounts of self-determining freedom. Edwards's central claim—that the will follows the strongest inclination—places the book among the most formidable phi...

Before its first publication in 1971, the three essays that comprise Jonathan Edwards' Treatise on Grace had never appeared in a collection. This book presents these three rare pieces and his Essay on the Trinity along with brief introductory sketches to their context and their relevance to his more widely known work. The concept of divine grace was a pivotal notion in the theology of Jonathan Edwards. He had inherited a 'covenant' theology from his Puritan forebears, which supposed that t...

In one of the unsurpassed religious masterpieces produced by an American writer, Jonathan Edwards distinguishes between true and false religion by defining a believer's correct affections and explaining their importance. He further identifies the distinction between genuine-seeming and legitimate affections.A Christian preacher and one of the greatest theologians of the English-speaking world, Jonathan Edwards played a critical role in the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of t...

Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian, and hes considered one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. Recent studies have emphasized how...

There is no question whatsoever, that is of greater importance to mankind, and that it more concerns every individual person to be well resolved in, than this: What are the distinguishing qualifications of those that are in favor with God, and entitled to his eternal rewards? Or, which comes to the same thing, What is the nature of true religion? And wherein do lie the distinguishing notes of that virtue and holiness that is acceptable in the sight of God? But though it be of such importan...

‘The Religious Affections’ is quite possibly one of the most important books ever written by America's greatest theologian Jonathan Edwards in 1746. Edwards wrote the Treatise to explain how true religious conversion to Christianity occurs. He describes how emotion and intellect both play a role, but ‘converting grace’ is what causes Christians to ‘awaken’ to see that forgiveness is available to all who have faith that Jesus' sacrifice atones for all sins. This is one of the unsurpassed re...

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The complete works. A massive tome. According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian". His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. His famous ...