The Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards

The Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards

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.

My Family and Other Superheroes, Jonathan Edwards' first collection, won the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People's Choice Award. He has performed and recorded his poetry on BBC radio and television, as well as for the Poetry Archive. In South Wales, he works as a teacher.

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ISBN 13	9781589600263
ISBN 10	1589600266
Title	The Religious Affections
Author	Jonathan Edwards
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sovereign Grace Publishers
Year published	2001-01-01
Number of pages	216
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