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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 [...]
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 [...]
Yale Press recently published three of the Works of Jonathan Edwards volumes in paperback. This is a very welcome move in that it makes some of the more important volumes in the series much more affordable. Over the years, many have complained about the steep price of the hardback editions, most of which [...]
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 [...]
