Jonathan Edwards Jr.'s Relish for True Religion: The Advance of the New England Theology in the Sermon on the Mount
Jonathan Edwards Jr. is often portrayed as a spiritless preacher who drove away his congregation with metaphysical preaching. This narrative, produced by the early liberalism of the pre-civil war era, has stuck to Edwards Jr. for nearly two hundred years. Accordingly, this narrative typically descri...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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The Evangelical quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 91, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-92 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America |
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Holy Spirit
B New Divinity theology B Jonathan Edwards B Religious Affections B Harriet Beecher Stowe B Joseph Bellamy B New Divinity B Sermon on the Mount B Edwards, Jonathan B New England Theology B Jonathan Edwards Jr |
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| Summary: | Jonathan Edwards Jr. is often portrayed as a spiritless preacher who drove away his congregation with metaphysical preaching. This narrative, produced by the early liberalism of the pre-civil war era, has stuck to Edwards Jr. for nearly two hundred years. Accordingly, this narrative typically describes Edwards Jr. and his fellow New Divinity pastor-theologians as distorting the Edwardsean legacy. This essay begins to amend the inherited narrative by showing that between the younger and elder Edwards there can be no line of demarcation. In particular, the younger shares his father's relish that true religion would flourish in his own congregation through the Holy Spirit's influences. Since the Sermon on the Mount has been the traditional territory of theological liberalism, this research examines Edwards Jr.'s forty-six manuscripts from the Sermon on the Mount which demonstrate a strong reliance upon Religious Affections. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-5472 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Evangelical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09101004 |