Covenant of Redemption in the Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards
Covenant of Redemption in the Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Author: Reita Yazawa

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-10-11

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1532643780

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Recently, the immanent Trinity (God as in himself) has been criticized as abstract and impractical as opposed to the economic Trinity (God in relation to the world). Many scholars argue that the immanent Trinity is detached from the real life of believers and God’s economic work of redemption and thus abstract and impractical. But is this assumption itself really true? What if the blueprint of God’s work of redemption is already located in the immanent Trinity as the divine idea? What if Jonathan Edwards, arguably the American greatest theologian, expounds this doctrine as a vital driving force in his theology? Rediscovering the doctrine of the covenant of redemption will help us to see that the immanent Trinity actually is not abstract, but highly practical, simply because the redemption of the believers hinges on the divine plan located there. This study is a fruit of the recent convergence of the resurging doctrine of the Trinity and the renaissance of studies of Jonathan Edwards.

Covenant of Redemption in the Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards
Covenant of Redemption in the Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Author: Reita Yazawa

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-10-11

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1532643802

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Recently, the immanent Trinity (God as in himself) has been criticized as abstract and impractical as opposed to the economic Trinity (God in relation to the world). Many scholars argue that the immanent Trinity is detached from the real life of believers and God's economic work of redemption and thus abstract and impractical. But is this assumption itself really true? What if the blueprint of God's work of redemption is already located in the immanent Trinity as the divine idea? What if Jonathan Edwards, arguably the American greatest theologian, expounds this doctrine as a vital driving force in his theology? Rediscovering the doctrine of the covenant of redemption will help us to see that the immanent Trinity actually is not abstract, but highly practical, simply because the redemption of the believers hinges on the divine plan located there. This study is a fruit of the recent convergence of the resurging doctrine of the Trinity and the renaissance of studies of Jonathan Edwards.

Heaven Is a World of Love
Heaven Is a World of Love

Author: Jonathan Edwards

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2020-10-02

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1433570742

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Of the many good gifts the Lord has given his church on earth, none exceeds that of his love. The things of this earth are temporary, but "love never ends" (1 Cor. 13:8)—it is a present taste of future glory, made available through communion with the Holy Spirit. In this classic work, Heaven Is a World of Love, New England pastor Jonathan Edwards encourages Christians struggling through the imperfect life here on earth to experience the perfect love of God through an exposition of the biblical foundations for the cause of God's love, the objects of God's love, the enjoyment of God's love, and the fruits of God's love. Each page of pastoral insight will leave readers hungry to experience more of God.

The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards
The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Author: Steven M. Studebaker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1317013069

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While Jonathan Edwards scholars have increasingly recognized the central role that the Trinity played in his thought, no work brings together Edwards' central texts on the Trinity and interprets and applies them to contemporary theological issues. This book reveals how the doctrine of the Trinity transformed Edwards' ministry and how the Trinity can inform current evangelical thought, life, and ministry. Key primary texts, interpretation, and application of Edwards' trinitarian theology are all presented here. Part one features Edwards' chief trinitarian writings and provides an in-depth analysis on his doctrine. Part two sets Edwards' trinitarianism in historical context. Part three demonstrates how Edwards employed the Trinity in his sermons, in spiritual formation, and in other areas of doctrine.

After Jonathan Edwards
After Jonathan Edwards

Author: Oliver D. Crisp

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0199995826

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Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers in the Christian tradition and an important and influential figure in American theology. After Jonathan Edwards is a collection of specially commissioned essays that track his intellectual legacies from the work of his immediate disciples that formed the New Divinity movement in colonial New England, to his impact upon European traditions and modern Asia. It is a unique interdisciplinary contribution to the reception of Edwardsian ideas, with scholars of Edwards being brought together with scholars of New England theology and early American history to produce a groundbreaking examination of the ways in which New England Theology flourished, how themes in Edwards's thought were taken up and changed by representatives of the school, and its lasting influence on the shape of American Christianity.

"The Supreme Harmony of All"

Author: Amy Plantinga Pauw

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780802849847

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Jonathan Edwards lived in an age in which the doctrine of the Trinity was sometimes openly repudiated and more often quietly ignored. But as this important book shows, Edwards in fact took care to creatively fashion the Trinity into the centerpiece of his Christian life and work. Through her pursuit of Edwards's writings, especially his lifelong intellectual diary, Amy Plantinga Pauw traces the way Edwards established the basic outlines of his trinitarian thought when he was only twenty years old, and how the doctrine continued to run like a subterranean river throughout his famed career as a pastor and teacher. Recognizing the centrality of the Trinity in Edwards's thought both nuances our understanding of his Puritan inheritance and challenges the narrowness of Edwards's enduring legacy as the preacher of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

The Infinite Merit of Christ
The Infinite Merit of Christ

Author: Craig Biehl

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781942587231

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The brilliance and diversity of Edwards' theology find unity in the beauty of Christ revealing and communicating the infinite excellence of the Trinity through saving unworthy sinners by obedience to God's unchanging rule of righteousness. Salvation of a single soul without perfect conformity to God's requirement for eternal life would render God unrighteous and destroy His ultimate purpose to display and communicate His glory -- God would not be God. Revisionist interpretations of Edwards' soteriology as inclusive or Catholic, therefore, are untenable without an overthrow and rewrite of Edwards' entire theology. And while every act of Christ was both propitiatory and meritorious, His obedience to death comprises the righteousness imputed to believers by which they are justified, earning the infinite merit by which they are rewarded. By this Christ accomplished God's ultimate purpose to display and communicate His glory, consummated by the eternal happiness of Christ and His bride in heaven.

The Covenant Theology of Jonathan Edwards
The Covenant Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Author: Paul J. Hoehner

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-05-13

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1725281570

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As a theologian in the Reformed tradition, covenant theology was for Jonathan Edwards the internal scaffolding that gave shape to the biblical story of redemption. The establishment of the eternal rule of righteousness as the basis of the believer’s communion with God and eternal happiness is a central theme beginning with the Covenant of Works, grounded in the eternal Covenant of Redemption, and culminating in the Covenant of Grace. It is the basis for the law-gospel distinction in Edwards and the early architects of federal theology. For the “God intoxicated” New England Puritan preacher, this was no dry academic exercise. Rather, it was a joyous and affectionate discovery and embrace of what God had ordained in eternity, what Christ accomplished in history on the cross, and what the Holy Spirit is doing and will complete in the church. This study grew out of current discussions in Reformed scholarship questioning aspects of traditional covenant theology. As a key transitional figure in the history of Reformed theology, Edwards’s thinking is still relevant. The richness and depth of Edwards’s vision of redemptive history provides a clear and comprehensive understanding of his Reformed soteriology and the role of evangelical obedience in justification.

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

Author: RenŽ Girard

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 160833158X

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Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as the turning point leading to new life. The title echoes Jesus' words: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven". Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, God's nonviolent kingdom, is being realized -- even now.