This is a collection of Jonathan Edwards most loved and important works. Includes hyperlinks to all books, chapters, and footnotes.
Includes the works below:
Volume I
1. Memoir of Jonathan Edwards by Sereno E. Dwight
2. A careful and strict inquiry into the prevailing notions of the freedom of will.
3. A dissertation on the end for which God created the world.
4. A dissertation concerning the nature of true virtue.
5. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended.
6. A treatise concerning religious affections in three parts.
7. Narrative of surprising conversions.
8. Thoughts on the revival of religion in New England.
9. Inquiry concerning qualification for communion.
10. Misrepresentations corrected and truth vindicated, in reply to the Rev. Solomon Williams.
11. A history of the work of redemption.
12. Five discourses on the soul’s eternal salvation.
13. Theological questions.
Volume II
1. Two sermons.
2. Five sermons on different occasions.
3. Fifteen sermons on various subjects.
4. Seven sermons on important subjects.
5. Miscellaneous discourses.
6. Distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God.
7. An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement, &c.
8. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd.
9. Miscellaneous observations on important theological subjects.
10. Remarks on important theological controversies.
11. Miscellaneous observations.
12. Types of the Messiah, &c.
13. Notes on the Bible.
14. Seventeen occasional sermons.
Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)
was a Christian preacher and theologian. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work is broad in scope, but he was rooted in Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts.Edwards delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a classic of early American literature, during another revival in 1741, following George Whitefield's tour of the Thirteen Colonies. Edwards is well known for his many books, The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, which served to inspire thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals still read today.
Jonathan Edwards was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian."
His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. His famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," is credited for starting the First Great Awakening. Edwards is widely known for his books Religious Affections and The Freedom of the Will. He died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey (later to be named Princeton University). Edwards is widely regarded as America's greatest theologian.
Jonathan Edwards was the only boy among eleven children. In 1720 he graduated from Yale as the valedictorian of his class. He continued at Yale working on a graduate degree in theology and was saved at the age of seventeen. Edwards was ordained in 1727 and joined his grandfather as an assistant pastor. In 1729 he became pastor of the church in Northampton, Massachusetts, which had some six hundred members. In 1735 God's blessing on his preaching resulted in a great revival with more than three hundred people saved and added to the church. Edwards is considered to be one of the men most responsible for the Great Awakening. His famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," was first preached in 1741 at Enfield, Massachusetts. In 1750 Edwards was voted out by his church after his attempt to limit church membership to those who made a profession of faith in Christ.
He spent the next seven years as a missionary to the Indians at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 1758 he accepted the presidency of the College of New Jersey (now called Princeton). After just weeks on the job, he died from smallpox brought on by an inoculation to protect him from the disease. Jonathan Edwards and his wife had eleven children. He spent one hour each night in conversation and instruction with his family. His daughter Jerusha was engaged to David Brainerd when he died of tuberculosis. Edwards' two most famous literary works are The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (1749) and Freedom of the Will (1754). Edwards is buried in Princeton, New Jersey.
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