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Becoming Divine: Jonathan Edwards's Incarnational Spirituality Within the Christian Tradition

Becoming Divine: Jonathan Edwards's Incarnational Spirituality Within the Christian Tradition

Withrow, Brandon G.

Paperback

Religion General ArchaeologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0718895258
ISBN13: 9780718895259
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Jan 25 2018
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A study of the theology of the American preacher Jonathan Edwards, linking his conversion with his distinctive understanding of divine participation.

Was Jonathan Edwards the stalwart and unquestioning Reformed theologian that he is often portrayed as being? In what ways did his own conversion fail to meet the standards of his Puritan ancestors? And how did this affect his understanding of the Divine Being and of the nature of justification? Becoming Divine investigates the early theological career of Edwards, finding him deep in a crisis of faith that drove him into an obsessive lifelong search for answers.

Instead of a fear of God, which he had been taught to understand as proof of his conversion, he experienced a 'surprising, amazing joy'. Suddenly he saw the Divine Being in everything and felt himself transported into a heavenly world, becoming one with the Divine family. What he developed, as he sought to make sense of this unexpected joy, is a theology that is both ancient and early modern: a theology of divine participation rooted in the incarnation of Christ.

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