Books… Creative and Conservative is the Ideal: A Review of “Original Sin” by Jonathan Edwards 5 Aug 2013 Creative and conservative theology is the ideal, and yet it is a hard balance to retain. Often the most creative theologians drift off into such ungrounded speculation that they end…
Jonathan Edwards Edwardsian Anxieties: The Fall 30 Jul 2013 To speak honestly and graciously about a man's sins it's best to start by speaking about his theology. The church has a responsibility to call one another to repentance, to…
Jonathan Edwards Edwardsian Anxieties: Fears, Failures, and the Fall 23 Jul 2013 It is blasphemy in some circles. To suggest that our religious heroes are fallen men strikes some as disrespectful and, they say, discourages admiration. We saw this clearly in the…
Books… A Review of “Jonathan Edwards: A Mini Theology” by John Gerstner 1 Jul 2013 Every year I pick a subject that I am going to study for the year. This year that subject is Jonathan Edwards. Thus far I have read a handful of…
Books… A Review of “Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell” by Strachan and Sweeney 24 Jun 2013 Our modernist sensibilities have taught us to think little of the doctrines of heaven and hell. We are too enlightened for such beliefs, we say. We either diminish their importance or we…
Jonathan Edwards Introducing Edwards: The Untimely Death and Lasting Legacy of Jonathan Edwards 15 May 201316 May 2013 I am certain Billy Joel had something different in mind. When he sang “Only the good die young,” he was probably not thinking of the legacy of numerous saints from…
Jonathan Edwards Introducing Edwards: Missionary to the Natives 7 May 20138 May 2013 Where do you go as a pastor when your own family terminates your employment? That's precisely what happened to Jonathan Edwards. The church he pastored in Northampton was full up…
Jonathan Edwards Introducing Edwards: The Battle for Communion 30 Apr 20131 May 2013 It has been called many names: The Lord’s Supper, Communion, the Eucharist, the Table of the Lord. However you speak of it, the Bible makes clear that it is to…
Jonathan Edwards Introducing Edwards: The Uncommon Union 23 Apr 201324 Apr 2013 "Marriage to a difficult man." That's how Elisabeth Dodd titled her famous monograph on the "uncommon union" of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards. Dodd's book is respected, though not always thought…
Jonathan Edwards Introducing Edwards: Grandfather and Grandson 16 Apr 201317 Apr 2013 To speak of Jonathan Edwards with any sort of historical context one must speak of his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. As assistant to his most revered grandfather, Edwards had received a…
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