The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America's Greatest Theologian - Softcover

Strachan, Owen; Sweeney, Douglas Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080241821X ISBN 13: 9780802418210

Publisher: Moody Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

You've heard his name, you've probably heard your pastor quote him, but who is he really?

250 years later, Jonathan Edwards, America’s consummate pastor-theologian, continues to capture the attention of Christians around the world. Yet Edwards left us over 1,200 sermons and thousands of pages of other publications, not to mention the literal thousands of books that have been written about Edwards since he died. Where does one even begin? That’s why we created The Essential Jonathan Edwards. It serves as a perfect introduction to Edwards’s life and thought. It explores Edwards day-to-day life, and his views on beauty, true Christianity, heaven and hell, and the good life. Strachan and Sweeney strike the perfect balance between necessary background information and giving Edwards’s own works room to speak.

Whether you’re an Edwards fan already or only know Edwards because of “that Angry God sermon,” this book will lead you to drink deeply of Scripture and gaze longingly at God. 

About this title

From the Back Cover

Many know the name; few know the man

Jonathan Edwards can be hard to pin down. He was intelligent, yet warm; he preached graphic sermons on hell, yet wrote stirring essays on beauty; he was a product of his time, yet a reformer. In short, he was complicated, as most of us are.

But in studying Edwards, you will discover something more valuable than biographical details.  More than learning about the pivotal moments of his life, more than grasping the major themes of his thought, you will encounter God through the eyes of Jonathan Edwards. And in so doing you will find yourself adoring, worshipping, and delighting in a God who is bigger than you dared imagine and closer than you could have dreamed. 

About the Author

OWEN STRACHAN is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the Director for the Center on Public Theology at MBTS. He holds a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, an MDiv from Southern Seminary, and an AB from Bowdoin College. Strachan has published fourteen books and writes regularly for The Gospel Coalition, the Christian Post, and Thoughtlife, his Patheos blog. He is married and is the father of three children. Strachan hosts the City of God podcast available at https://cpt.mbts.edu.

DOUGLAS A. SWEENEY is Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought and Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He formerly served as a lecturer at Yale University, as an adjunct professor as Aquinas College, and as a visiting professor at both Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary. Sweeney is the author of a number of books and articles about religious history and the American theologian, Jonathan Edwards. He resides with his wife, Wilma, and their son in Lindenhurst, Illinois.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 080241821X
• ISBN 13: 9780802418210
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448