An Infinite Fountain Of Light

Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781514006634

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An Infinite Fountain of Light by George M. Marsden Pdf

Christians need to pause once in a while to get their bearings. For perspective on our own times and how we got here, it helps to listen to wise guides from other eras. In An Infinite Fountain of Light, the renowned American historian George Marsden illuminates the landscape with wisdom from one such mentor: Jonathan Edwards. Drawing on his deep expertise on Edwards and American culture, Marsden explains where Edwards stood within his historical context and sets forth key points of his complex thought. By also considering Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield, two of Edwards's most influential contemporaries, Marsden unpacks the competing cultural and religious impulses that have shaped our times. In contrast, Edwards offered us an exhilarating view of the centrality of God's beauty and love. Christians' love for God, he taught, can be the guiding love of our lives, opening us to transformative joy and orienting all our lesser loves. "There is an infinite fullness of all possible good in God, a fullness of every perfection, of all excellency and beauty, and of infinite happiness," wrote Edwards. "This infinite fountain of light should, diffusing its excellent fullness, pour forth light all around." With Marsden's guidance, readers will discover how Edwards's insights can renew our own vision of the divine, of creation, and of ourselves.

Author : William Stacy Johnson,John H. Leith
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664226043

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Reformed Reader by William Stacy Johnson,John H. Leith Pdf

This excellent resource presents short, meaningful selections from major Reformed theologians of Europe, the British Isles, and America during the classical period, 1519-1799. Arranged thematically according to major doctrines, it identifies significant theological points that illustrate both the distinctiveness and diversity of Reformed thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015067971310

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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : MSU:31293104189232

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The Works of President Edwards ... by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009621269

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The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556001711282

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Works by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The End For Which God Created the World by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

This classic is organized as follows: Introduction Containing Explanations of Terms and General Positions Chapter I. Wherein Is Considered, What Reason Teaches Concerning This Affair. Section I. Some things observed in general, which reason dictates Section II. Some further observations concerning those things which reason leads us to suppose God aimed at in the creation of the world Section III. Wherein it is considered how, on the supposition of God’s making the aforementioned things his last end, he manifests a supreme and ultimate regard to himself in all his works Section IV. Some objections considered, which may be made against the reasonableness of what has been said of God making himself his last end. Chapter II. Wherein If It Is Inquired, What Is To Be Learned From Holy Scriptures, Concerning God’s Last End In The Creation Of The World Section I. The Scriptures represent God as making himself his own last end in the creation of the world Section II. Wherein some positions are advanced concerning a just method of arguing in this affair, from what we find in the Holy Scriptures Section III. Particular texts of Scripture, that show that God’s glory is an ultimate end of the creation Section IV. Places of Scripture that lead us to suppose, that God created the world for his name, to make his perfections known; and that he made it for his praise. Section V. Places of Scripture from whence it may be argued, that communication of good to the creature, was one thing which God had in view, as an ultimate end of the creation of the world. Section VI. Wherein is considered what is meant by the glory of God and the name of God in Scripture, when spoken of as God’s end in his works Section VII. Showing that the ultimate End of the Creation of the World is but one, and what that one end is.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Religion
ISBN : MINN:31951002032031M

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Dissertation of the end for which God created the world. Dissertation on the nature of true virtue. History of the work of redemption. An attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in extraordinary prayer. Distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Glory of God
ISBN : BL:A0020757637

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Two Dissertations by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : IOWA:31858020064527

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The Works of President Edwards;: Life of President Edwards. Enquiry into the freedom of the will. A dissertation concering the end for which God created the world by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781773560229

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The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - II by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Continuing in the second book of the first volume of Jonathan Edwards monumental works, it opens up by talking about the purpose for which we and the world was made and continues on to talk about the origin of sin and its purpose and as well as touches on the religious affections that are within the church.

Author : William M. Schweitzer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567195227

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God is a Communicative Being by William M. Schweitzer Pdf

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Author : Walter J. Schultz
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647564869

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Jonathan Edwards' Concerning The End for Which God Created the World by Walter J. Schultz Pdf

This book is an exposition of Jonathan Edwards' argumentation in his dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World. In addition to stating Edwards' theses regarding God's end and motivation in creation, this book identifies and discusses the assumptions of his argumentation, analyses and explains its crucial components, and explores its philosophical implications. These implications include a version of exemplarism (i.e., the nature of God's ideas for creation), dispositionalism (i.e., the characteristics of God which explain God's motivation), and emanationism (i.e., what God shares of himself with persons who have a living faith in Christ). These entail a view of idealism (i.e., a view of the ultimate ontological ground of the universe), God's temporal nature, continuous creationism (i.e., how God sustains creation), a version of panentheism (i.e., how God, who is infinite, is related to creation, from which God is absolutely distinct), and occasionalism (i.e., the nature of causation of physical events or states of creation). These concepts and what they entail constitute a complete metaphysical system, providing a thoroughgoing divine action understanding of the foundation of reality. For Jonathan Edwards, God's acting according to his plans for his purposes in Christ is fundamental to all things. Were we to have an understanding of how the fundamental concepts of science, mathematics, and ordinary experience are related in reality to the God who acts for his original ultimate end in creation, sustaining the universe, while providentially guiding its affairs, and working redemption, we would have the opportunity to develop these as he had hoped, he pointed the way for others to follow.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015010305046

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The Works of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Mark Stoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190230869

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Inherit the Holy Mountain by Mark Stoll Pdf

In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark R. Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes they espoused. Stoll discovers that specific denominational origins corresponded with characteristic sets of ideas about nature and the environment as well as distinctive aesthetic reactions to nature, as revealed by key works of art analyzed throughout the book. As this innovative exploration of environmentalism's history shows, people raised in a handful of denominations made the movement a moral and political force. Stoll also provides insight into the possible future of environmentalism in the United States, concluding with an examination of the current religious scene and what it portends for the future. By debunking the supposed divide between religion and American environmentalism, Inherit the Holy Mountain opens up a fundamentally new narrative in environmental studies. -- from dust jacket.