Jonathan Edwards and the gospel of love
By: Ronald Story
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781558499836; 9781558499829
Description: Jonathan Edwards has long epitomized the Puritan preacher as fiery scold, fixated on the inner struggle of the soul and the eternal flames of hell. In this book, Ronald Story offers a fundamentally different view of Edwards, revealing a profoundly social minister who preached a gospel of charity and community bound by love. Drawing on Edward's own sermons and notebooks, the author reveals Edwards' belief that divine love expressed in the human family should take us beyond tribalism, sectarianism, provincialism, and nationality. Edwards offers hope, in the manner of Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King Jr., and other great "improvers," for the coming of a world without want and war. This book represents a new departure in Edwards studies, revising the long-standing yet misleading stereotype of a man whose lessons of charity, community, and love we need now more than ever. --from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Life; title: Personae; title: Tropes; title: Charity; title: Community; title: Love.