Religious affections / edited by John E. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758, author.

Series:

Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. Works ; v. 2.

His Works ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Early works to 1850.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 pages) : facsimile.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1959.

Summary:

This volume contains Edwards' most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the religious development in eighteenth-century America known as the Great Awakening. In developing criteria for such judgment he attacked at the same time one of the fundamental questions facing all religion: how to distinguish genuine from spurious piety? The Awakening created much bitter controversy; on the one side stood the emotionalists and enthusiasts, and on the other the rationalists, for whom religion was essentially a matter of morality or good conduct and the acceptance of properly formulated doctrine. Edwards, with great analytical skill and enormous biblical learning, showed that both sides were in the wrong. He attacked both a "lifeless morality" as too pale as to be the essence of religion, and he rejected the excesses of a purely emotional religion more concerned for sensational effects than for the inner transformation of the self, which was, for him, the center of genuine Christianity.

Contents:

v. 1. Freedom of the will

v. 2. Religious affections

v. 3. Original sin

v. 4. The Great Awakening

v. 5. Apocalyptic writings

v. 6. Scientific and philosophical writings

v. 7. The life of David Brainerd

v. 8. Ethical writings

v. 9. A history of the work of redemption

v. 10. Sermons and discourses, 1720-1723

v. 13. The "miscellanies" (entry nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500)

v. 15. Notes on Scripture

v. 17. Sermons and discourses, 1730-1733

v. 18. The "miscellanies" (entry nos. 501-832)

v. 19. Sermons and discourses, 1734-1738

v. 20. The miscellanies

v. 22. Sermons and discourses, 1739-1742

v. 24. The "blank Bible" (2 v.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300214079

0300214073

OCLC:

957128008