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Edwards also wrote a full account of the Northampton revival, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, which was published in 1737 in London and Edinburgh and within a year was reprinted there, issued in Boston in three printings, and translated into German. In addition, near the end of the period Edwards put together Discourses on Various Important Subjects, five sermons about the Awakening and the only gathering of sermons he saw through the press.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49779853590801,"sku":"CIN0300087144G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300087144.jpg?v=1750738442"},{"product_id":"works-of-jonathan-edwards-vol-2-book-jonathan-edwards-9780300158410","title":"The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 2","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49941372240145,"sku":"CIN0300158416G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346688151825,"sku":"CIN0300158416A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51839110152465,"sku":"CIN0300158416VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52387662397713,"sku":"GOR008074828","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300158416.jpg?v=1750941289"},{"product_id":"works-of-jonathan-edwards-vol-4-book-jonathan-edwards-9780300158427","title":"The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 4","description":"Interpreting the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century was in large part the work of Jonathan Edwards; whose writings on the subject defined the revival tradition in America. Moving from sensitive descriptions of \"the Surprising work of God\" in conversion to a consuming quest for the essence of true religion, and threading his way through mounting controversies over \"errors in doctrine and disorders in practice,\" Edwards sought to locate an authentic core of evangelical experience, to define it in terms of biblical faith and psychological insight, and to defend it against both overheated zealous and rationalistic critics. The tracts that unfold his thoughts, presented here (with related correspondence ) for the first time in accurate critical texts, document a movement so significant for the American character that it has been called \"our national conversion.\" In a carefully researched introduction, C.C. Goen identifies the \"Arminian threat\" to which the Northampton pastor responded at the onset of the Awakening, and traces Edwards’ understanding of vital religion as it developed in the ambiguous context of revivalism. Mr. Goen’s study also illuminates little-known aspects of A Faithful Narrative and describes the haphazard way in which that important work reached its eager audience.  C.C. Goen, author of Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740-1800 (1962), is professor of church history at the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50244303716625,"sku":"CIN0300158424G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300158424.jpg?v=1750695106"},{"product_id":"works-of-jonathan-edwards-vol-15-book-jonathan-edwards-9780300071986","title":"The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 15","description":"This is the first complete edition of the private biblical notebook that Jonathan Edwards compiled over a period of nearly thirty-five years. Edwards’ \"Notes on Scripture\" confirms the centrality of the Bible in his thought and provides more balance to earlier depictions of his writings that emphasized the scientific and philosophical while overlooking the biblical dimension. In this critical edition the entries appear in the order in which Edwards wrote them, beginning with a short commentary on Genesis 2:10-14 that he penned in 1724, and ending with his last entry, Number 507 on the Book of Solomon's Song, written two years before his death.   This volume provides direct access to one of America’s most influential religious thinkers. Edwards’ entries range across the entire scriptural canon and reveal his creativity in the interpretation of particular biblical texts and his fascination with typology. The notebook also documents Edwards’ engagement with the intellectual currents of his day, in particular his response to the challenge associated with the Enlightenment critique of biblical revelation. Stephen J. Stein’s introduction situates Edwards as an exegete in the larger tradition of biblical commentary and in the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Western thought.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347832410385,"sku":"CIN0300071981G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300071981.jpg?v=1751133727"},{"product_id":"works-of-jonathan-edwards-vol-14-book-jonathan-edwards-9780300068412","title":"The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 14","description":"This book presents previously unpublished manuscript sermons from a crucial yet little-known period in Edwards's life: the years between the completion of his Master's degree at Yale College and the death of Solomon Stoddard, his famous grandfather and predecessor at Northampton, Massachusetts. These sermons, constituting the second in a projected series of six sermon volumes, highlight the intellectual and professional development of the young Edwards through his pastorate at Bolton, Connecticut, his Yale tutorship, and his colleagueship at Northampton.  In his introduction, Kenneth P. Minkema weaves together the details of Edwards's emerging career with the concerns expressed in the sermons. He shows how Edwards addressed local and provincial concerns as well as the great theological debates of his day, and how he struggled to work out the implications of his innovative concept of \"excellency\" and to develop his definition of conversion as a \"spiritual light.\"   From these sermons emerges an unparalleled portrait of a rapidly maturing Edwards seeking to give shape to his theological vision.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50463179276561,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50463180849425,"sku":"CIN0300068417G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300068417.jpg?v=1751102017"},{"product_id":"works-of-jonathan-edwards-vol-1-book-jonathan-edwards-9780300158403","title":"The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 1","description":"This inaugural volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards is his major contribution to theology and stands as a leading document on Calvinist thought.  Mr. Ramsey’s introduction provides a fresh analysis of Edwards’ theological position, includes a study of his life and the intellectual issues in the America of his time, and examines the problem of free will in the philosophical context of today and in connection with Leibniz, Locke, and Hume.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51135714328849,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51135715901713,"sku":"CIN0300158408G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300158408.jpg?v=1750974457"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/the-works-of-jonathan-edwards-series-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}