Of all the areas relating to the study of Jonathan Edwards that scholars have delved into, one of the most overlooked and neglected is the study of Edwards’s legacy. Much of the work to date has focused on Edwards’s theological and philosophical pursuits, but little attempt has been made to trace the influence of [...]

943. Justification. Faith. Repentance.
Repentance is often spoken [of] as the special condition of remission of sins. But yet ’tis evident by the Scripture that remission of sins is by faith in Jesus Christ, and that this is the special condition of remission of sins, by which we become entitled to this great privilege; [as appears] [...]

The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University has just announced that they will again be offering the one-week course on Edwards this summer, June 14-19.  At $400 (plus travel and lodging), the course is fairly inexpensive and there are a number of inexpensive housing options available as well.
Here is the full info which can also [...]

For this first entry in the Miscellany Mondays series, I thought it appropriate to begin where Jonathan Edwards himself began. The first entry of the first notebook. Edwards began writing these miscellanies in October 1722 while he was a supply pastor to a small Presbyterian church in New York City.  He would eventually [...]

Starting this coming Monday, April 20, a new weekly series will debut here on A Divine and Supernatural Light. It’s well-known that Jonathan Edwards had a series of notebooks which he used as a sort of intellectual journal. These notebooks contained entries in which Edwards would opine on various topics, usually as a [...]

A heads-up on a new book.  The Infinite Merit of Christ: The Glory of Christ’s Obedience in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Craig Biehl was published by Reformed Academic Press on March 20.  This looks to be an important work in the study of Christology in Edwards’s thought.  Here’s what the publisher says about [...]