Jonathan Edwards Lover Of God

Author : Owen Strachan,Douglas Allen Sweeney
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 157567923X

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Jonathan Edwards Lover of God by Owen Strachan,Douglas Allen Sweeney Pdf

Jonathan Edwards stands tall in America’s historical memory. A great philosopher, a great preacher, a great theologian. Edwards was a complex and gifted person, one who defies easy characterization. He intimidates us, and we distance ourselves from him because at the most fundamental level, he’s just not like us. It is of course true that Jonathan Edwards was a combination of many rare things: an exceptional intellectual, a masterly preacher, a cavernous theologian, a devoted husband and father, a college president, and much more. But all of these roles flowed out of one simple and essential reality: Jonathan Edwards was a Christian. He was a believer who followed Jesus Christ in repentant faith. He loved God, and he sought to live for Him. This book celebrates the unique life and ministry of Jonathan Edwards. It peels back the cover of his life, to show us what a life devoted to our sovereign Lord can look like. It causes us to use our own God-given gifts for the salvation of sinners, the strengthening of God’s church, and the glory of God. You do not need to be a scholar to enjoy and benefit from the story and rich lessons about Edwards' life.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433570742

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Heaven Is a World of Love by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Of the many good gifts the Lord has given his church on earth, none exceeds that of his love. The things of this earth are temporary, but "love never ends" (1 Cor. 13:8)—it is a present taste of future glory, made available through communion with the Holy Spirit. In this classic work, Heaven Is a World of Love, New England pastor Jonathan Edwards encourages Christians struggling through the imperfect life here on earth to experience the perfect love of God through an exposition of the biblical foundations for the cause of God's love, the objects of God's love, the enjoyment of God's love, and the fruits of God's love. Each page of pastoral insight will leave readers hungry to experience more of God.

Author : Owen Strachan,Douglas Allen Sweeney
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802496706

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The Essential Jonathan Edwards by Owen Strachan,Douglas Allen Sweeney Pdf

You've heard his name, you've probably heard your pastor quote him, but who is he really? 250 years later, Jonathan Edwards, America’s consummate pastor-theologian, continues to capture the attention of Christians around the world. Yet Edwards left us over 1,200 sermons and thousands of pages of other publications, not to mention the literal thousands of books that have been written about Edwards since he died. Where does one even begin? That’s why we created The Essential Jonathan Edwards. It serves as a perfect introduction to Edwards’s life and thought. It explores Edwards day-to-day life, and his views on beauty, true Christianity, heaven and hell, and the good life. Strachan and Sweeney strike the perfect balance between necessary background information and giving Edwards’s own works room to speak. Whether you’re an Edwards fan already or only know Edwards because of “that Angry God sermon,” this book will lead you to drink deeply of Scripture and gaze longingly at God.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4D1V

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Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Owen Strachan,Douglas Allen Sweeney
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575679248

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Jonathan Edwards on Beauty by Owen Strachan,Douglas Allen Sweeney Pdf

Beauty is hard to describe, but easy to identify. It resides in expected and unexpected places in our world. Beauty is present in our world in a variety of forms. Yet while the average person might think about the reality of beauty from time to time, few people would think about the source of beauty. Where does beauty come from? Why is it here? Several hundred years ago Jonathan Edwards did some thinking of his own on this difficult subject. This volume explores his meditation on the subject and lays out a Christian framework for understanding and experiencing the beauty God has planted in His world. Edwards found in the study of beauty the person of God. Where Edwards saw beautiful images and acts, he saw a representation, a small picture, of a reality too great to comprehend, a God too majestic to adequately adore. He sets in motion a path of glory that begins with the Lord, moves to creation, continues to the incarnation of Christ, moves to the church, and ascends to the glory of heaven, where the Holy Trinity dwells. Easily accessible and readable, you do not need to be a scholar to enjoy these insights about Jonathan Edwards and his writings.

Author : Ronald Story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Charity
ISBN : 1558499822

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Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love by Ronald Story Pdf

Jonathan Edwards has long epitomized the Puritan preacher as fiery scold, fixated on the inner struggle of the soul and the eternal flames of hell. In this book, Ronald Story offers a fundamentally different view of Edwards, revealing a profoundly social minister who preached a gospel of charity and community bound by love. Drawing on Edward's own sermons and notebooks, the author reveals Edwards' belief that divine love expressed in the human family should take us beyond tribalism, sectarianism, provincialism, and nationality. Edwards offers hope, in the manner of Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King Jr., and other great "improvers," for the coming of a world without want and war. This book represents a new departure in Edwards studies, revising the long-standing yet misleading stereotype of a man whose lessons of charity, community, and love we need now more than ever. --from back cover.

Author : John Piper,Justin Taylor
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781433528910

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A God Entranced Vision of All Things by John Piper,Justin Taylor Pdf

"Useful men are some of the greatest blessings of a people. To have many such is more for a people's happiness than almost anything, unless it be God's own gracious, spiritual presence amongst them; they are precious gifts of heaven." Certainly one of the most useful men in evangelical history was the man who preached those words, pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards. Commemorating his 300th birthday, general editors John Piper and Justin Taylor chose ten essays that highlight different aspects of Edwards's life and legacy and show how his teachings are just as relevant today as they were three centuries ago. Even within the church, many people know little more about Edwards than what is printed in American history textbooks-most often, excerpts from his best-known sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." They unjustly envision Edwards preaching only fire and brimstone to frightened listeners. But he knew and preached God's heaven as much as Satan's hell. He was a humble and joyful servant, striving to glorify God in his personal life and public ministry. This book's contributors investigate the character and teachings of the man who preached from a deep concern for the unsaved and a passionate desire for God. Studying the life and works of this dynamic Great Awakening figure will rouse slumbering Christians, prompting them to view the world through Edwards's God-centered lens.

Author : Kyle C. Strobel
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830884391

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Formed for the Glory of God by Kyle C. Strobel Pdf

Jesus said we should focus our minds and hearts on God above all else. No small task! Is there someone we can turn to for help? "Wisdom tells us to sit at the feet of our elders rather than the latest ministry fad," notes author Kyle Strobel. And is there a better elder to guide us than Jonathan Edwards? In Edwards, the eighteenth-century Puritan pastor and theologian, we find deep thought balanced with deep passion. Through his writings and practices, Edwards provides us with the tools—the "means of grace"—that make us receptive to God's work in our lives as we learn to abide in Christ. Here we find a well-rounded account of being formed for the glory of God.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Christian life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041293700

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Charity and Its Fruits by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Gerald R McDermott
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1573831921

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Seeing God by Gerald R McDermott Pdf

This lively update of Edward's classic "Treatise Concerning Religious Affections" is an analysis of today's spiritual life, with vivid illustrations.

Author : David S. Lovi,Benjamin Westerhoff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620320129

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The Power of God by David S. Lovi,Benjamin Westerhoff Pdf

The book you now hold in your hands contains nearly everything the great American puritan Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) ever wrote on the book of Romans. It is collated into a verse-by-verse Bible commentary. Pastors, theologians, historians, and Bible study leaders will find a treasure of biblical insight along with practical application, as one of the great theologians of the Christian church expounds the book that Martin Luther called the "most important piece in the New Testament." Jonathan Edwards' expository genius is clearly evident in both the depth of his biblical insight as well as his logic. Readers will be encouraged and edified as they delve deeply into the book of Romans with Jonathan Edwards by their side.

Author : W. Ross Hastings
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451487695

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Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God by W. Ross Hastings Pdf

Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God aims to offer a retrieval of Edwards's theology of participation for contemporary evangelical theology. It critically expounds and elucidates the concept of participation in God, or theosis, in Edwards's Trinitarian theology as it relates to around three unions: the three persons of the Trinity, the hypostatic union of the divine and human in Christ, and that of believers with Christ. This volume brings Edwards's rich theological work into conversation with the patristic (Augustine and the Cappadocians) and Reformed traditions (Calvin and, especially, Barth), in order to construct with Edwards a more hopeful, liberating, and truly human version of Christian life. Consideration of the life of God in Edwards thus moves "beyond" in two senses: first, perspectives on participation beyond those of Edwards from Barth, Volf, the Cappadocian Fathers, and others in the tradition, are engaged in order to locate and critique and enhance it; and secondly, in the sense that, as Hastings argues, participation leads, for Edwards and others, into the "beyond" of the beatific vision--the glory of God, which is the hope that, amongst other things, motivates the Christian life.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300133639

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The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Jonathan Edwards, widely considered America’s most important Christian thinker, was first and foremost a preacher and pastor who guided souls and interpreted religious experiences. His primary tool in achieving these goals was the sermon, out of which grew many of his famous treatises. This selection of Edwards’ sermons recognizes their crucial role in his life and art. The fifteen sermons, four of which have never been published before, reflect a life dedicated to experiencing and understanding spiritual truth. Chosen to represent a typical cycle of Edwards’ preaching, the sermons address a wide range of occasions, situations, and states, corporate as well as personal. The book also contains an introduction that discusses Edwards’ contribution to the sermon as a literary form, places his sermons within their social and cultural contexts, and considers his theological aims as a way of familiarizing the reader with the "order of salvation" as Edwards conceived of it. Together, the sermons and the editors’ introduction offer a rounded picture of Edwards the preacher, the sermon writer, and the pastoral theologian.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781773560328

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

Mainly a collection of sermons and discourses on various theological subjects, Edwards continues his monumental work on the topics of the Bible that explain simple things such as God's love to more complicated manner of salvation. These topics will be an enlightening read for anyone who wishes to study theology in any formal way.

Author : Stephen R. Holmes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567087484

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God of Grace & God of Glory by Stephen R. Holmes Pdf

Jonathan Edwards is increasingly recognized as one of the church's most interesting and significant theologians, yet synthesizing his thought has proven difficult. This new study by Stephen Holmes finds a key to the whole of Edwards's theology in the concept of "glory." Based on readings of all of Edwards's major works and making use of important unpublished materials, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to Edwards for nonspecialists and, at the same time, makes an original contribution to Edwards scholarship.