So you want to get to know Edwards? But you don’t know where to start. I recommend that you start out with John Piper’s edition of The End for Which God Created the World in God’s passion for his glory. Then pick up they Yale reader which has a great collection of sermons. After thatContinue reading “Jonathan Edwards Week – A Recommended Reading List”
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Jonathan Edwards Week – Sex & God’s Glory
Earlier this week we saw that Edwards believed that “God is a communicative being.” This significance of this is that God is all about his glory – specifically God is all about communicating his own glory ad intra (within the Trinity) and ad extra (to sentient beings he has created). Then we asked the question:Continue reading “Jonathan Edwards Week – Sex & God’s Glory”
Jonathan Edwards Week – Ontological Argument(s)
Jonathan Edwards makes an interesting (and prior to a few weeks ago unknown to me) ontological argument in one of his miscellanies. But before we get to that, a little bit on Ontological Arguments[1]: Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premises which are supposed to derive from some source otherContinue reading “Jonathan Edwards Week – Ontological Argument(s)”
Jonathan Edwards Week – Edwards and Atonement (Pt. 2)
Yesterday we took a brief look at a quote from Edwards that has been spun into a rather interesting theory of atonement (namely one that Edwards would never had agreed to). Today, I felt like we should look at what Edwards really believed about atonement. Here is Edwards in his own words: If it beContinue reading “Jonathan Edwards Week – Edwards and Atonement (Pt. 2)”
Jonathan Edwards Week – Edwards and Atonement
What does Jonathan Edwards believe when it comes to atonement? Well, its nothing terribly interesting – he takes the traditional reformed line when it comes to this doctrine. However – in one of his miscellanies he says something that has been used by other theologians (John McLeod Campbell initially) to argue that he might haveContinue reading “Jonathan Edwards Week – Edwards and Atonement”
Jonathan Edwards Week – God is a Communicative Being
One of the fundamental axioms of Jonathan Edwards’ theology is that God is a communicative being. Edwards says that “It is God’s essence to incline to communicate himself.” (Misc. 107) He also says that “This disposition to communicate himself is what we must conceive of as being originally in God as a perfection of hisContinue reading “Jonathan Edwards Week – God is a Communicative Being”
The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
Currently on the Amazon Kindle store you can get a copy of A God Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards for just $1.99! If you are a fan of Jonathan Edwards I highly recommend that you do not pass up this deal! It contains essays by numerous Jonathan Edwards scholars asContinue reading “The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards”
Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God
Doug Sweeney shares some thoughts on Dane Ortlund’s new book on Jonathan Edwards: OK, I know what you’re thinking. We’ve had a spate of books on Edwards intended to edify believers in the past several years. But give this new volume a chance. Dane C. Ortlund is an excellent theologian from Wheaton College. He hasContinue reading “Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God”
My Paper for ETS Farwest 2014
This is going to be a busy season for me, In early March I will be presenting a paper on Jonathan Edwards and Latino Theology out at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, then in the middle of March I am going to Liberia to help make prescription glasses for people in rural areas in addition toContinue reading “My Paper for ETS Farwest 2014”
My Paper for ETS Southwest 2014
This year I have the privilege of presenting a paper at the 2014 Southwest ETS Regional meeting. This year’s meeting will be hosted by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth and will take place on March 7th-8th. The theme is “The Decline of Denominationalism, and the Future of Evangelical Christianity.” I am so excited toContinue reading “My Paper for ETS Southwest 2014”
CWoznicki Think Out Loud 