With a short teaser of the period of the Great Awakening given by Dr. Harry Stout the previous day, today we were to look at Edwards and the awakening in greater detail. In the years just before the awakenings really took off a highly noticeable declension in church attendance and new membership was plaguing [...]

Carrying on the premise behind an earlier post, another question I’ve been asked recently is, “why call the site ‘A Divine and Supernatural Light?’” This is a great question and one that should probably have been answered in the initial “an introduction” post, but oh well.
When I was trying to come up with a [...]

When preached in August of 1733, Edwards’s sermon on Matthew 16:17, later published as A Divine and Supernatural Light, did not include the following passage. When published in 1734, however, “Miscellany 489″ was included in the first part of the doctrine section of the sermon. The ideas found in this entry are central [...]