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Jonathan Edwards is known as one of the most respected thinkers in American history and presided over the Great Awakening, one of the formative colonial events. What many don't realize is Edwards lived during a time of widespread conflict, which eventually touched the people of Northampton personally. Through these collected sermons, many of which are unpublished, Edwards sought to instruct, train, and comfort his congregation during a precarious season in provincial life. These sermons demonstrate the scope of Edwards's greatness: a global thinker intimately connected to the British Empire as well as shepherd of the Northampton flock. The first part of this collection presents the sermons Edwards preached while the theater of war centered on the continent and the Caribbean. During this phase, Edwards's sermons leveraged martial language to promote the burgeoning revivals. In 1744, war was transplanted to the colonies in which the Northampton congregation personally participated. After a short hiatus of international conflict, warfare spread throughout the colonies. While he served a frontier mission, Edwards prepared his Indian congregation for yet another season of war. These sermons present Edwards as theologian, historian, philosopher, but most importantly, as pastor.
Jonathan Edwards, widely considered America’s most important Christian thinker, was first and foremost a preacher and pastor who guided souls and interpreted religious experiences. His primary tool in achieving these goals was the sermon, out of which grew many of his famous treatises. This selection of Edwards’ sermons recognizes their crucial role in his life and art. The fifteen sermons, four of which have never been published before, reflect a life dedicated to experiencing and understanding spiritual truth. Chosen to represent a typical cycle of Edwards’ preaching, the sermons address a wide range of occasions, situations, and states, corporate as well as personal. The book also contains an introduction that discusses Edwards’ contribution to the sermon as a literary form, places his sermons within their social and cultural contexts, and considers his theological aims as a way of familiarizing the reader with the "order of salvation" as Edwards conceived of it. Together, the sermons and the editors’ introduction offer a rounded picture of Edwards the preacher, the sermon writer, and the pastoral theologian.
In April 1740, Jonathan Edwards, minister of Northampton, Massachusetts, preached a discourse on Hebrews 12:22–24 comprising eight sermons. At this point, he had been the senior pastor of that town for just over a decade, and had seen his congregation through the historic Connecticut Valley Awakening of the mid-1730s, when several hundred souls were reportedly savingly converted. This first volume of Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Church contains the previously unpublished Hebrews discourse, “Christians Coming to Mt. Zion,” preached on the very cusp of the transatlantic religious movement that would become known as “The Great Awakening,” the New England phase of which began later that year. In addition to the complete and original text of Edwards’ discourse, the volume includes two introductions that describe his preaching style and method and provide an historical context.
Printed in large 10 point type and containing a scriptural index, this volume contains all of Jonathan Edwards' sermons, including God Glorified in Man's Dependence, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Divine and Supernatural Light, Justification by Faith Alone, The Excellency of Christ, and many more. Jonathan Edwards was an 18th century North American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of the America's most important and original philosophical theologians.
This wide-ranging volume covers the final fifteen of the thirty-three years that Jonathan Edwards preached and includes some of his greatest sermons--including his Farewell Sermons to his Northampton congregation. The period is defined by Edwards' inventive strategies to improvise during the delivery of his sermons. Considering dependence on the written text in the pulpit to be a serious failing, he devised a double-columned, outlined format for his sermon manuscripts and continued to use it for the rest of his life. Sermons from this period also include those preached to Mahican and Mohawk Indians at the mission post of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Edwards' various writings of 1743-58 map the complex terrain of his spiritual, intellectual, and professional life after the Great Awakening. He deals with topics ranging from the spiritual role of youth in the community to the struggles over communion in his Northampton congregation to the war with the French and their Indian allies.
Today, Jonathan Edwards is primarily remembered as a gifted and influential theologian. But in eighteenth-century America, his preaching resounded from pulpits throughout New England, sparking the flame of revival that became known as the first "Great Awakening." As the fame of this Puritan pastor and preacher of revival spread far and wide, his sermons galvanized those who heard them into reexamining their lives and faith. This book is a fine sampling from this reknowned preacher. Each sermon is a brilliant and personal invitation to know God through both our intellect and our affections-- compelling us to open our hearts to the sweet love and joy available to us in our life in Christ. - back of book
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"Well edited....Will prove welcome to readers of Puritan divinity on both sides of the Atlantic." -Scotsman "The sermons have been selected as representative of Edwards the preacher rather than of Edwards the theologian." -Publishers Weekly "The Enfield Sermon, with its terrible realism of description, is paired with a revival sermon of another type, that on 'Ruth's Resolution.' The sermon on 'Man's Dependence' and on 'Spiritual Light' show him as a powerful champion of his theology. The Farewell sermon is virtually the apologia of his ministerial life, and the other two represent still different types. The notes are interesting in connection with the sermons." The Unitarian Register "Besides the lengthy introduction by Professor Gardiner, there are seven sermons of the great preacher in this little volume." -The Bookman "As a specimen of the great theologian's style and thought these selections will be useful." -The Christian Advocate "A very careful reprint of seven selected sermons and an appendix of notes....The editorial work has been excellently done." -The American Journal of Psychology CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SERMONS: I. God Glorified in Man's Dependence (1731) II. The Reality of Spiritual Light (1733) III. Ruth's Resolution (1735) IV. The Many Mansions (1737) V. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) VI. A Strong Rod Broken and Withered (1748) VII. Farewell Sermon (1750) NOTES