Jonathan Edwards: Sermons and Discourses (6 vols.)
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Overview
Despite his fame as a preacher, many of Jonathan Edwards’ sermons and public addresses have gone unstudied and underappreciated. The volumes in this collection contain sermons and addresses that Edwards delivered between the years 1720-1758. Addressing a wide range of topics and to a range of audiences these offer fascinating insights into Edwards’ thought.
Many of these have been published for the first time in this collection. With this set you will gain insights into Edwards’ ministry that very few have ever had the chance to make!
Product Details
- Title: Sermons and Discourses
- Author: Jonathan Edwards
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Volumes: 6
- Pages: 3,955
- Christian Group: Reformed
About Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut to Timothy and Esther Edwards. He began his formal education at Yale College in 1716, where he encountered the Calvinism that had influenced his own Puritan upbringing. In 1727, he was ordained as minister of the church in Northampton, Massachusetts. The First Great Awakening began in Edwards’ church three years later, 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 The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, and The Life of David Brainerd. When the revival subsided, the church of Northampton became increasingly suspect of Edwards’ strict requirements for participation in the sacraments. Edwards left Northampton in 1750 to become a minister at a missions church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 1757, Edwards reluctantly became president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), where he hoped to complete two major works—one that expanded his treatise on the history of redemption, and the other on the harmony of the Old and New Testaments. His writing ambitions were interrupted by his death in 1758, when he died of complications stemming from a smallpox inoculation.