The Essential Edwards Collection

January 24, 2010

On February 1, 2010, Moody Publishers will unveil The Essential Edwards Collection. This collection appears to be designed to make Jonathan Edwards more accessible to churchgoers and any who may not be interested in reading lengthy, academic works pertaining to Edwards’s life and thought (all of these volumes check in at 160 pages). [...]

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And the winner is…

January 21, 2010

Twitter user JacobYoung84! Congratulations, Jacob! You are the winner of the aDaSL 1st Anniversary Giveaway and will be receiving a hardcover copy of Religious Affections in the Yale Works of Jonathan Edwards. I hope this book will be of great benefit to you.
I want to send a hearty thanks to everyone who [...]

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Miscellany Mondays: “Miscellany 1053″

January 18, 2010

1053. PREPARATORY WORK.

God usually does much to prepare his people for those things which yet, if he pleased, he could bring to pass, and that in a due perfection, without any preparation. Thus much was done to prepare Joseph for his exaltation in Egypt. Much was done to prepare Moses for his high privileges and [...]

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Less than a week to go!

January 13, 2010

Just under a week remains to enter the aDaSL 1st Anniversary Giveaway. You could win a hardcover edition of Religious Affections in the Yale Works of Jonathan Edwards series. A $110.00 value!
Get your entries in and tell your friends!

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Just Announced: A New Jonathan Edwards Center Established at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

January 12, 2010

The Henry Center just announced the creation of a new Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. This new center is being established in conjunction with the JEC at Yale and will provide a wonderful opportunity for the furthering of Edwards scholarship. Congratulations to TEDS and Doug Sweeney for this achievement!
From: HCTU [...]

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Miscellany Mondays: “Miscellany 1058″

January 12, 2010

In January and February, I’m teaching a class on Religious Affections for my church in Sunday School. As such, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the awakenings that Edwards and much of Colonial New England experienced in the mid-eighteenth century. Every time I read the Affections, I’m struck by the balance that [...]

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Lay Exhorters and Silly Women

January 6, 2010

As with any cultural, social, religious, etc. movement, the Great Awakening was not immune to criticism. Those unhappy with the stirrings of revival cited excesses among the so-called “enthusiasts,” as they sought to discredit what was going on. One of the biggest problems these critics had was in regard to “lay exhorters.” [...]

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aDaSL 1st Anniversary Giveaway: Win a Copy of Religious Affections

January 5, 2010

Well, it’s been about a year since this site started, and that calls for a celebration. To mark this occasion, I will be giving away a hardcopy edition of Volume 2 in the Yale Works of Jonathan Edwards series, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections.
This book is Edwards’s landmark work on the nature [...]

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Miscellany Mondays: “Miscellany 764b.”

January 4, 2010

Here is one more miscellany on the incarnation of Christ. This time, Edwards muses on the union of the two natures of Christ, identifying the Holy Spirit as the bond which unites these two natures.
764b. INCARNATION OF CHRIST. UNION OF THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST.

What Christ says in the John 3:33–34, confirms that the [...]

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Jonathan Edwards’s New Year’s Prayer

January 4, 2010

Trevin Wax has posted a prayer on his blog in which he adapted the first 21 entries of Edwards’s famous resolutions. A clever exercise, and a rather affective prayer. Here it is in full:
Lord God Almighty,
I understand that I am unable to do anything without your help,
so I ask you to enable me [...]

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