About this title: Prepared by editors of the series "The Works of Jonathan Edwards", this anthology includes selected treatises, sermons and autobiographical material by Jonathan Edwards, early America's great theologian and philosopher.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780300062045ISBN:0300062044
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780300062045ISBN:0300062044
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780300062045ISBN:0300062044
Description: Very Good. Slight spinal creasing. No store stamp. Some underlining within text. Slight edgewear. Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America`s greatest theologian and philosopher. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780300062045ISBN:0300062044
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2003-03-01
ISBN-13:9780300098389ISBN:0300098383
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780300062045ISBN:0300062044
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"Neither huge nor imposing...they say that Locke, Hobbes, and Montesquieu are the Big Three...
But just wait, somehow I'll get even more lost in Edwards' Spider than in Hobbes' Leviathan.
*EDIT*
Well, I liked the Spider Letter, although I don't *really* get what makes Edwards so happy about spiders drowning in the sea...you'd think there'd be a lot of other examples in creation to write about...
My goodness, Edwards is a brave fellow...jumping right into the Calvinism v. Arminianism battle...I just wish he wouldn't use the word "will" as both a noun and a verb...it gets really confusing.
*EDIT*
...well, kids, they don't call it the Great Awakening for nothing...
I decided to save "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" for the end, just because it sounded so...you know...BIG and LOUD and SCARY.
So I read the Virtue sermon, and I met Happy Edwards..."Virtue is love of beauty and being, and God is beauty and being, so virtue consists in loving God..." Ahhhhh...so nice...In fact, there's a *lot* of Happy Edwards..."The Beauty of the World", "A Divine and Supernatural Light"...and that's the frame of mind that I was in when I opened up the Sinners sermon...
...it's sort of like having a usually good-natured parent who has to give you a tough-love lecture...the "I can't believe you did that! What are you THINKING?! Do you understand the consequences for doing something like that?! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?!!!!" The fact that this is his most famous sermon strikes me as a bit unfair, since Edwards doesn't *always* talk about the wrath of God...just like parents aren't *always* lecturing...
I will say, though, that his Sinners sermon is really well-written, lots of strong verbs and quality adjectives thrown in to get his point across. (There's about a million ways to say that sinners will go to hell, and Edwards nails pretty much all of them.) And Edwards is pretty much right in his theology, that God is holy and can't stand sin...sort of the witnessing tactic that you've gotta prove the disease before showing the cure.
But the image of God stomping His omnipotence on sinners and squelching out their blood and guts was sort of scary. However, I appreciate the fact that Edwards really, really, really didn't want to let people drift into hell.
Main thought: Johnny Ed is no C.S. Lewis, I'll tell ya that. His theology is very bullet-pointed and obviously well-thought-out, but...it seemed a bit repetitive, just like most sermons sort of do. (Is it because listeners have to hear things more often than readers do?) Recommended for theology buffs, but not something I truly enjoyed digging into.
I like the fact that I've now read this more than I actually liked reading this."
"While the book presents a number of interesting essays on Jonathan Edwards (one of America's most important religious figures) I found the book a little lacking...and BORING!"
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