Crumbs from the Master's Table

The issues are different for us today from what Jonathan Edwards was addressing in the shortcomings or faulty views...

Edwards: The things of divinity not only concern ministers, but are of infinite importance to all Christians. It is not with the doctrines ...

Edwards: The emanation or communication of the divine fullness, consisting in the knowledge of God, love to God, and joy in God, has relat...

The following quotation accurately describes my own experience and understanding both of Edwards and the current state of affairs in modern ...

This is why I read Jonathan Edwards: Whatever clear notions a man may have of the attributes of God, and doctrine of the trinity; the natu...

Here's an Edwardsian definition: Divinity is “the doctrine of living to God by Christ.” —Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses 1739–1...

A bit of biographical perspective from Tryon Edwards’ Introduction to Jonathan Edwards' Charity and Its Fruits : PERHAPS no person eve...

Douglas Sweeney: Edwards tried to interpret the Bible theologically. He handled it not as a collection of antiquarian artifacts, but as th...

In " Grace Tends to Holy Practice ," preached in 1738, Edwards says this of true humility's tendency: True Christian humili...

"Love to God is opposite to a disposition in men to be angry at others' faults chiefly as they are affected and injured by them; it...

Edwards, from " Charity Contrary to an Angry Spirit ," preached in 1738: Persons sin in their anger with respect to the occasion ...

Here's a definition of anger, slightly modified from Jonathan Edwards: "An intense, earnest, and passionate opposition of one...

"There are [those] who in their love to their own happiness place their happiness in good things which are confined and limited to them...

Commenting on Mark 12:30, Edwards says (italics mine for emphasis): Here is contained in these words a description of a right love to God; ...

Edwards: Envy may be defined, a spirit of opposition to others' comparative happiness, or to the happiness of others considered as com...

"To be kind is to have a disposition freely to do good. Whatever good is done, it is no proper kindness in the doer of it unless it be ...

In a section showing how "a Christian spirit disposes persons freely to do good to others," in the fourth sermon in his sermon ser...

"It is the nature of love, or at least love to a superior as such [e.g., God], even to incline and dispose to imitation. A child's ...

Edwards on Christian meekness, from a sermon on 1 Cor. 13:4 in his justly famous series Charity and Its Fruits : If men after they are off...

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) and John Calvin (1509–1564), two of the world's most prominent pastor-theologians, speak eloquently to the ...