Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards 288pp)
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Title: Religious Affections
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Pages: 288
ISBN:
This work of Jonathan Edwards is of special value today because of the lack among Christians of a spiritual cultivation of the interior life and its affections. I hope that you, as a reader, will not be impatient nor reject Edwards’s probing of your heart and affections. Eventually he will help you see how the true Christian life depends upon the cultivation of the right inclinations of the will and of the affections for godly living. Just as the pragmatist has no friends because he simply “uses” people, so pragmatic Christian — and they are indeed numerous today — use God and do not realize the need to know Him intimately. They simply speak in His name and by His authority without allowing their own affections to be nurtured toward Him. Occasionally we are privileged to meet princes. Jonathan Edwards is acclaimed as both a prince in the world of the thought, as well as in the realm of Christian faith. Like Augustine and Calvin, he stands as one of the greatest leaders of the Church universal.
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Pages: 288
ISBN:
This work of Jonathan Edwards is of special value today because of the lack among Christians of a spiritual cultivation of the interior life and its affections. I hope that you, as a reader, will not be impatient nor reject Edwards’s probing of your heart and affections. Eventually he will help you see how the true Christian life depends upon the cultivation of the right inclinations of the will and of the affections for godly living. Just as the pragmatist has no friends because he simply “uses” people, so pragmatic Christian — and they are indeed numerous today — use God and do not realize the need to know Him intimately. They simply speak in His name and by His authority without allowing their own affections to be nurtured toward Him. Occasionally we are privileged to meet princes. Jonathan Edwards is acclaimed as both a prince in the world of the thought, as well as in the realm of Christian faith. Like Augustine and Calvin, he stands as one of the greatest leaders of the Church universal.
