A Theological Primer

Jonathan Edwards believed that the world is most fully understood when it is understood theologically. In keeping with that understanding, he preached to his Northampton congregation twice a week or more for nearly a quarter of a century on various dimensions of his theological vision, one that he b...

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Published inJonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" p. 17
Main Author Edwards, Jonathan
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Yale University Press 27.04.2010
Subjects
Afterlife
Anger
Animals
Applied philosophy
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Christian justification
Christian philosophy
Christianity
Cognitive psychology
Damnation
Divine attributes
Divinity
Doctrinal theology
Emotion
Emotional states
Eschatology
Eternality
Hell
Humans
Mammals
Natural theology
Philosophy
Philosophy of religion
Primates
Psychology
Religion
Sin
Spiritual belief systems
Spiritual love
Systematic theology
Theism
Theology
Trinity
Wrath
Zoology
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Summary:Jonathan Edwards believed that the world is most fully understood when it is understood theologically. In keeping with that understanding, he preached to his Northampton congregation twice a week or more for nearly a quarter of a century on various dimensions of his theological vision, one that he believed formed a holistic picture of God’s world and the role of humans in it. As such, when we readSinnerstoday, we are reading a document that for its original hearers was located within a highly developed theological context. Terms likeGod, sinners, andhell, as well as aspects of the
ISBN:9780300140385
030014038X