Religious Affections: True Faith Shows Itself in the Fruit of the Spirit and Christlike Living
You probably know him for preaching the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—but Jonathan Edwards had much more to say about the Christian life. The central figure in New England’s first Great Awakening, Edwards offers a detailed description of the signs—true and false—of conversion, while highlighting the role truly balanced emotions play within the Christian life. He takes a long, hard look at the evidence of true saving faith—the fruit that comes from living like Christ. This newly-typeset edition of Religious Affections is updated and abridged for ease of reading.
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if your Christian faith
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You probably know Jonathan Edwards for preaching the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—but the great Puritan thinker had much more to say about the Christian life. The central figure in New England’s first Great Awakening, Edwards wrote Religious Affections as a detailed description of the signs—true and false—of spiritual conversion, highlighting the role truly balanced emotions play within the Christian life.
Religious Affections takes a careful look at the evidence of true saving faith—the fruit that comes from living like Christ—offering readers a yardstick for measuring their own faith life.
Top Highlights
“Christian practice and holy life is a sign of sincerity to others” (source)
“VIII. True grace-filled feeling is different from false, delusional emotions, in that spiritual feeling is accompanied by the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temperament of Jesus Christ; it makes us more like Christ.” (source)
“V. True grace-filled emotions are accompanied by reasonable evidence and a spiritual conviction that is based on divine reality.” (source)
“In every act of the will, the soul either likes or dislikes what is in view; it is either inclined or disinclined to it.” (source)
“IV. The grace-filled feeling of the heart springs from a spiritually enlightened mind” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Religious Affections: True Faith Shows Itself in the Fruit of the Spirit and Christlike Living
- Author: Edwards, Jonathan
- Publisher: Barbour Books
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781628363517
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is considered one of America’s greatest theologians. While attending Yale College, he encountered the same Calvinism that had influenced his own Puritan upbringing.
Three years after Edwards was ordained as a minister, the First Great Awakening began in his church, which prompted Edwards to study conversion and revival within the context of Calvinism. During the revival, Edwards preached his most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and penned many of his most popular works, including Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, and Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd.
In 1757, Edwards reluctantly became president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), where he hoped to complete two major works—an expansion of his treatise on the history of redemption and a study of the harmony of the Old and New Testaments. The Works of Jonathan Edwards (26 vols.) is a massive collection containing five decades’ worth of study and scholarship on and from Edwards.